Deep in the cold, dusty spaces between stars where no planets exist and no ...

Louis E. Brus, a chemist and Nobel laureate who discovered quantum dots, tiny crystals that emit various colors of light ...

The Big Bang's early moments were crucial for nucleosynthesis, leading to the formation of light elements and influencing the ...

When we first learn about atoms, we learn that the simplest has one electron buzzing around one proton, aka hydrogen. But it turns out there's an atom that's even simpler than this. It's called ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

How atomic-layer deposition and hybrid dielectrics are redefining reliability and scaling for AI-era semiconductors.

Humans have been eyeing the colorful Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but testing out a new telescope tool led to the ...

The Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57, sits about 2,000 light-years from Earth. It is a planetary nebula—a misleading ...

The center of the Earth might not be the rigid ball of solid iron scientists once imagined, new research says it’s softer.

An international group of researchers has found that chiral phonons can create orbital current without needing magnetic elements – in part because chiral phonons have their own magnetic moments.

Astronomers found an iron bar in the Ring Nebula that doesn't match any known stellar phenomenon. Scientists can't explain ...