A doctoral student recreated a tiny piece of the universe in a bottle to investigate the chemistry that led to life on Earth.
Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.
Scientists call this speck LUCA — the Last Universal Common Ancestor. Since the concept of LUCA first emerged, it has ...
For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...
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 ...
A sweeping history of the DOE’s National Labs—from the Manhattan Project to fusion breakthroughs—and their impact on U.S. science and innovation.
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...
An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has ...
Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...
Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...
The New England Patriots faced off against the Seattle Seahawks in the 2026 Super Bowl, with the Seahawks winning 29-13. Since the first Super Bowl in 1967, the Patriots have won six titles, most ...
We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...
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