A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

Synchrotron radiation has revealed a star map made by the ancient astronomer Hipparchus that was thought to be lost to time ...

The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according to a lab experiment ...

Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

There is no measurement that can directly observe the wave function of a quantum mechanical system, but the wave function is still enormously useful as its (complex) square represents the probability ...

When researchers set out to rebuild Thomas Edison’s 1879 light bulb, they expected a history lesson, not a materials science surprise. By carefully recreating his carbon filaments and punishing them ...

PCI Government Services VP Paul Rempfer, a GovCon Expert, explains how Golden Dome is reshaping defense contracting.

The LCLS-II X-ray laser is unprecedentedly bright, and will make it possible to record exactly what atoms and molecules do during photosynthesis and other chemical reactions ...

When Thomas Alva Edison was painstakingly testing carbonized filaments for his early light bulbs in 1879, he was chasing a ...