Ancient enzymes show life’s nitrogen signal stayed unchanged for billions of years, helping scientists read early Earth.

The carbon filament used in Edison’s 1897 light bulb experiments generated the precise amount of heat needed to produce ...

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For a mere moment after the Big Bang, no neutrons or protons are thought to have existed. These neutral and positively charged particles, respectively, make up the center of all atoms today. But ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...