In its first moments, the infant universe was a trillion-degree-hot soup of quarks and gluons. These elementary particles zinged around at light ...

Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He ...

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New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

A ziggurat (also spelled ziqqurat) was a raised platform with four sloping sides that looked like a tiered pyramid. Ziggurats were common in ancient Mesopotamia (roughly modern Iraq) from around 4,000 ...

Why some memories persist while others vanish has fascinated scientists for more than a century. Now, new research from the ...

Princeton researchers believe seashells might just hold the key to stronger concrete.