The James Webb Space Telescope may have detected life-associated gas in the atmosphere of a far-off planet. The news is being ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

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A team of scientists has cracked open one of meteorology's enduring mysteries—how hailstones grow inside storm clouds—using ...

The technology, called Single-Molecule Atomic-Resolution Time-resolved Electron Microscopy (SMART-EM for short), lets scientists observe individual atoms and molecules as they interact during chemical ...

Today's super-resolution microscopes have made it possible to observe the nanoscale world with unprecedented detail. However, they require fluorescent tags, which reveal structural details but provide ...

A new study has shed unprecedented light on the highly variable and climate-sensitive routes that substances from Siberian rivers use to travel across the Arctic Ocean. The findings raise fresh ...

When the catastrophic Los Angeles fires broke out, John Volckens suspected firefighters and residents were breathing toxic ...

Earth's oceans, known for their deep blue hue, could one day undergo color shifts, say scientists. A report based on a study ...

New research revealed the remarkable chemical diversity of substances exuded by coral reefs and demonstrated that thousands of different chemicals derived from tropical corals and seaweeds are ...

You bring your car to the auto repair shop and they slap a sticker on the windshield: change your oil again in 3,000 miles or three months. You probably knew that the 3,000-mile interval was ...

It is often a time-consuming way to purify a target chemical, and it tends to consume ... “What you see in the picture is what I isolated in the very beginning,” she says.