Ask a chemist to name the strongest single bond in organic chemistry, and they'll likely say carbon-fluorine. It's that bond, ...

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Researchers with the long-running Harvard–Cornell Archaeological Exploration of Sardis have unearthed a larger-than-life ...

Around 4.6 billion years ago, the solar system was little more than a giant ball of gas and dust. Over the next few million ...

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have found that implosions designed for inertial fusion energy ...

In Adaptation and the Life Cycle, psychologist Bernice Neugarten tells us that we arrive in our middle years by our social ...

A NASA-led team hopes to take a shortcut to direct imaging of extrasolar Earth-like planets. The idea is to use what they ...

Our everyday life is flooded with photons, the quantum building blocks of light. For cutting-edge technology, from quantum ...

There is something slightly ridiculous about using a kitchen blender to make graphene. This is, after all, the "wonder ...

Marine heat waves and extreme ocean acidification events are each damaging on their own. But when both stressors hit ...

When I first arrived in Peru's Allpahuayo-Mishana National Reserve in 2005, a local youth surprised me with an offer to sell ...