Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Plutonium (Pu) exhibits one of the most diverse and complex chemistries of any element in the periodic table. Since its discovery in 1940, scientists have synthesized and studied many different types ...

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Google DeepMind, the artificial intelligence company behind the popular AlphaFold tool, has published the next generation of the application’s protein structure prediction software. The new tool can ...

Mikayla Morell is a content writer and editor residing in Philadelphia, PA. She began her career as a writer while also working as a phlebotomist in a local hospital. She wanted to use her ...

Set on a name that starts with "C" for your daughter? From Charlize to Caroline, and Claire to Chanel — there are a wide range of girl names that start with “C” for parents-to-be. The top 1,000 baby ...

Systemic, structural change has always been a part of the perspective of the Greater Good Science Center. In a 2022 essay, editor Jeremy Adam Smith defines structural forces in the context of our work ...

Researchers of ancient Egypt discovered “five identical structures near the Khafre Pyramid’s base, linked by pathways, and eight deep vertical wells descending 648 meters underground.” Claims that ...