For example, the Nobel prize in economic science, awarded this week, underlined the importance of funding basic research.

In a frigid corner of the solar system, Saturn’s moon Titan has surprised scientists with an unexpected chemical twist.

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

Researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters have devised a battery powered by vitamin B2 (riboflavin) and glucose.

Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous ...

B.S.: Chemistry, with minors in English and Food Study, New York University Ph.D.: Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry, University of California—Davis WHAT SHE DOES NOW: Teaches chefs and cooks ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...

Some call them will-o’-the-wisps; others call them ignis fatuus, Latin for “foolish fire.” Whatever the name, for centuries people have reported seeing these eerie, faint blue flames hovering over ...

Two in three community college students in California lack reliable access to food or housing, according to a new study. The 2025 Real College CA Student Survey, led by the Community College League of ...

Lisa Petersen and her daughter, Naia, in Copenhagen. Petersen says securing a publicly run daycare spot was extremely easy for her family, a contrast to her friends in Canada. (Submitted by Lisa ...