A light-sensitive crystal is opening the door to a new era of “light-written” technology. Arsenic trisulfide can be reshaped ...

"This experiment's never been run before on another world," said Amy Williams, an astrobiologist working on the Curiosity ...

Collaboration that made precise measurement of the g-2 value honored with $3 million from the Breakthrough Prize in ...

University of Maryland students are transforming the campus golf course into a living laboratory by restoring rain gardens ...

Using 3D-printed pools and an Arduino, scientists recreated ancient hot springs and produced the crude protocells that may ...

A leading theory posits that life originated in prebiotic volcanic hot springs where the right mixture of elements, water, ...

Everything on the electromagnetic spectrum has some properties of both waves and particles, but it’s difficult to imagine a radio wave, for example, behaving like a particle. The main evidence for ...

The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) supported 58,800 science fund projects last year, allocating a total of 37.07 billion yuan ($5.38 billion), according to NSFC Director Dou ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider – or getting more helping hands on ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...