At a flooded uranium mine in Germany, bacteria pulled off an extremely useful chemical trick. Given glycerol and 130 days ...

When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda ...

After decades of analyzing reams of lunar rocks back here on Earth, the canonical view of the moon was that it was anhydrous; ...

A laser-based innovation could allow electron microscopes to reveal biological structures that have long remained beyond ...

A sugar found in raspberries and sunless tanning products has turned up near the Milky Way’s center. The discovery marks the ...

Nuclear reactors are traditionally powered with dense fuel rods that can produce about 1 gigawatt of carbon-free electricity, ...

The first direct detection of a sugar in interstellar space marks a major advance in the search for the chemical ingredients that may have contributed to the emergence of life. Published in Nature ...

Researchers have captured how a molecule redistributes energy after absorbing light, differentiating the roles of individual ...