Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells ...

(via Veritasium) The factory that makes the world's most volatile substance.

A record-setting pristine star provides a window into the dawn of stars and galaxies in the universe. This groundbreaking ...

Observations of the highly unusual—sometimes called “forbidden”—exoplanet TOI-5205 b taken by JWST suggest the giant planet’s ...

The interiors of ice giant planets like Uranus and Neptune could be home to a previously unknown state of matter, according ...

Mikhail Blagosklonny was right to say out loud: the goal of geroscience is life extension. Not “vitality” or a polite euphemism for better late-life care, but life extension [1]. He also insisted on ...

By lifting a gene from wild rice and breeding it into domestic crops, researchers have created a perennial crop that can live for two years or more. That could lead to rice that can produce several ...

My first encounter with the importance of oil was in 1962. I had just watched an episode of the witty sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies that began with a catchy theme song: “Come and listen to my story ...

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor (opens a new tab) took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook ...

Let us mourn the demise of the American penny. With each of the one-cent coins costing about three cents to make, it was “wasteful” to keep producing them, pronounced President Trump. US pennies won’t ...

At the dawn of the 20th century, old age wasn’t much of a problem. That’s because a newborn in 1900 could expect to live, on ...

The new study, published in Nature Communications, looked at six years of data from the Cassini space mission to determine ...