One of the greatest mysteries of our planet is how a soup of lifeless chemicals transformed into the first living cell. There are several competing theories about where this happened, from frozen ...

NASA's Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project has completed an important step toward using local resources to support human exploration on the moon. The CaRD team performed integrated ...

Better-tasting, safer drinking water makes a difference. These filtered water pitchers earned a spot in our fridges after real-world testing.

Oxygen is crucial for life as we know it, but before it could build up in our atmosphere, earth had to slow down. Hosted by: ...

Perovskite solar cells have long been the most exciting “almost there” technology in clean energy. In laboratories, they already rival the best silicon solar cells, converting more than 26 percent of ...

Physicists at the University of British Columbia sent a laser beam of an optical centrifuge into helium nano-droplets doped with dimers of nitric oxide in order to control and study their rotation ...

Hemoglobin and myoglobin are composed of two parts (protein and heme). The protein part in myoglobin is a monomer, a single-chain protein (made up of 7 alpha-helical pieces) with 153 amino acids.

The transport of respiratory gases in the blood is a fundamental physiological process that enables cellular metabolism and maintains acid–base balance. Oxygen is required for aerobic energy ...