- By Laura Sinpetru
- August 19th, 2015
Researchers: It Was Probably Comets That Seeded Our Planet with Life
Comet impacts might have given rise to life as we know it
- By Laura Sinpetru
- August 18th, 2015
Meteorite Impacts Can Cook Up Building Blocks of Life
Just as long as they land in water, scientists explain
- By Laura Sinpetru
- February 6th, 2015
It Takes 1,000 Licks to Finish a Lollipop, Researchers Find
Study on dissolving and shrinking shows eating lollipops takes way more hark work than most people think
- By Laura Sinpetru
- January 24th, 2015
Chemists Figure Out a Way to Unboil Eggs, No Joke
Adding certain chemicals to a boiled egg makes the proteins inside it break free from each other, turns the egg liquid
- By Laura Sinpetru
- October 24th, 2014
Copper Cube Cooled to Near Absolute Zero in New World Record
The copper cube was cooled to as much as -273.144 degrees Celsius (0.006 kelvin), kept there for 15 days
- By Laura Sinpetru
- September 10th, 2014
Super Awesome Solid Light Is an Actual Thing, the Result of Crystallization
“This is a new behavior for light,” says Princeton University researcher Andrew Houck
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 11th, 2014
Antarctic Detector Captures Third High-Energy Neutrino
The three particles are among the most energetic ever found
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 10th, 2014
JILA Engineers Best Atomic Force Microscope Probe to Date
The minuscule device will aid studies of molecules and DNA
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 10th, 2014
New Method to Produce Ethanol from Carbon Monoxide Gas Developed
The approach is far more efficient than producing ethanol from crops
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 7th, 2014
Very Small Particle Collider Can Split Clouds of Atoms
The instrument then smashes these atoms together, analyzing the effects
- By Tudor Vieru
- April 4th, 2014
Most Precise Atomic Clock in the World to Remain Accurate for 300 Million Years
The device will complement the existing NIST-F1 atomic clock
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 25th, 2014
Elementary Particles Smaller than the Higgs Boson Must Exist
Researchers say this is a natural consequence of identifying the force carrier
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 21st, 2014
New Semiconductors Can Operate Inside Nuclear Reactors
These electronics can withstand blistering temperatures
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 20th, 2014
Flexible Electronics Possible with Carbon Nanotubes
Two major obstacles preventing CNT use in electronics removed
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 18th, 2014
Gravitational Waves Detected for the First Time
This confirms that the Universe is indeed expanding exponentially
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 14th, 2014
Fuel Cell Studies May Reveal the Origins of Life
Investigators are studying the earliest chemical conditions on Earth
- By Tudor Vieru
- March 12th, 2014
Lasers Boost Radio Wave Detection in New Method
The innovation could be used to improve radio astronomy and medicine