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 ...

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

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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 ...

Erythrulose—a sugar found in raspberries—is also prevalent in a giant molecular cloud close to our galaxy’s core, scientists ...

Pyrite, an iron sulfide ore, is often known as fool's gold because its shiny metallic luster and pale brass-yellow color can ...

In most modern cells, DNA stores the genetic blueprint, and relies on proteins to replicate, repair and build from those blueprints. At the same time ...

After decades of research, Zhang Tao, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his team proposed the concept of ...

The mysterious origin of lightning was finally uncovered through an ingenious laboratory experiment, revealing the ...

Chemists want molecules with increasingly three-dimensional atomic structures because they may be more potent and selective ...

Topological crystalline insulator research has reached a long-awaited milestone: Finnish physicists built the first 2D ...