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 ...

Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...

Life’s story may stretch further back than scientists once thought. Some genes found in nearly every organism today were already duplicated before all life shared a common ancestor. By tracking these ...

Melanie DeVos Molinaro and her husband, Michael Molinaro, of Atlanta, Georgia, had been working on a line of Italian ancestors in his family history for some time without much progress. The couple got ...

BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) – Did you know the state line used to be the home of a bustling black business district? It was called Bristol’s “Black Bottom,” which is a term for the designation of a black ...

As the Dark Energy Survey (DES) releases its final results, we caught up with two physicists who've been involved in the project from its early days. In this Q&A, Josh Frieman, DES co-founder and ...

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