Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

In a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, a microbe does something that life shouldn’t be able to do: It breathes oxygen ...

Artificial intelligence software is designing novel experimental protocols that improve upon the work of human physicists, ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that enter your nose and the individual neurons that translate them into ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.