These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Sophisticated new chemical analysis of gases trapped in rocks for millions of years has cast new light on the origin of the ...

Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Archaeologists in Britain say they've found the earliest evidence of humans making fires anywhere in the world. The discovery ...

The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant reveals that massive exploding stars can forge far more of life's essential ingredients ...

A leading education union boss says headteachers will be unable to fulfil the government's latest plan to teach the sciences separately at GCSE because of an overwhelming lack of specialist teachers.

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Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring the quantum world. By trapping atoms and exploiting their quantum ...

Professor Daniel Blumenthal's lab develops chip-scale components that can bring the power and precision of quantum science outside of the tightly controlled environment of the lab. (Santa Barbara, ...

“When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The revised version of the theory requires 12 kinds. In the whimsical terminology ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio --The Cleveland Museum of Natural History welcomes Bonnie Garmus, author of the global bestseller “Lessons in Chemistry,” for an evening of storytelling and discussion on Thursday, ...