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Compared to previous theories, the current research emphasizes the complexity of the biological and chemical processes that brought about life.

Nguyen and her team solved this by designing a version of their molecule that remains liquid at room temperature. It requires ...

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A mile beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, crews have spent years blasting and hauling rock to carve out enormous ...

New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

Using atomic-scale defects in diamond, researchers in China have gained unprecedented insights into the complex chemical ...

Nano–soft hybrid materials combine the structural precision of nanotechnology with the adaptability of soft matter such as liquid crystals.

Immediately after the Big Bang boomed, the Universe was a trillion-degree ' soup ' of unimaginably dense plasma. In a ...