Othmar Schmiderer wanted to avoid "fear-mongering or finger-wagging" but sees a "possible colonization of distant planets as ...

There are 118 elements on the periodic table, but it seems like only a handful of them get any attention. But just because you haven't heard of an element doesn't mean that it isn't a vital part of ...

Island’s mineral and resource wealth is result of mountain building, rifting and volcanic activity over 4bn years ...

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Some elements can basically be liquids and solids at the same time, which is a whole new state of matter, and scientists have ...

Scientists may have found an unexpected way to break down “forever chemicals”—by borrowing chemistry from failing lithium-ion ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

Our genome isn’t as peaceful as it looks—some DNA elements are constantly trying to disrupt it. Scientists studying fruit ...

SeaQuest DSV was a bold ’90s sci-fi series that tackled environmental and political themes long before prestige TV became the ...

In 2015, John Bohannon, a science journalist and biologist, felt that reporters were at fault for bad science and the ...

A spectacular new image from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate structures inside the Helix Nebula, where a ...

Out of 46 varieties of candy from 10 companies tested by the Florida Department of Health, 28 contained arsenic.