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

Each station is to be capable of communication at a speed of 100 five-letter words per minute each way, during a daily ...

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 ...

MEGI unifies IS, ICE, transposon and phage annotations into the first comprehensive mobile-element dataset, boosting Centroid ...

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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 ...

An extremely early Type II supernova explosion, named after the Titan goddess of dawn in Greek mythology, occurred just 1 ...

This week the Unexpected Elements team has travelled Down Under to sunny Sydney where we discover some wonderfully Australian science with the help of some wonderfully Australian panellists. First, we ...

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 ...