At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals—regular, repeating atomic ...

In 1953, Watson and Crick announced the double-helix structure of DNA and later won the Nobel Prize. But a crucial clue came from Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction work at King’s College ...

As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...

A research team led by Prof. Zhang Tianshu from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such ...

The situation is so unique that the area has earned a fitting nickname: Sharkansas. Paleontologists have long wondered how these remarkable preservations formed. According to a study published by ...

Photoionization mass spectrometry has transformed analytical chemistry, enabling complex chemical analysis and celebrating a ...

Earth's core contains nine to 45 times more hydrogen than the planet's oceans do, according to a new study that could settle a debate about when and how hydrogen was delivered to Earth.

Ioanna Kakoulli, a professor of materials science and engineering, died Jan. 1. She was 57. Kakoulli was the first female professor hired by UCLA’s materials science and engineering department, ...

From DNA to nuclear physics, women made landmark discoveries only to be written out of history. This feature explores the Matilda Effect, traces erased contributions with real cases from India and ...

A new study led by the University of Liverpool examined olivine to better understand how it deforms. The researchers were surprised to find that about 17% of the crystals showed evidence of ...