The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

After the Red Planet reemerged from conjunction — a period when NASA doesn't communicate with spacecraft because Mars is ...

While participants made these choices, the research team applied transcranial alternating current stimulation to the frontal and parietal lobes of the brain. This non-invasive stimulation was designed ...

A sealed Soviet chamber, sleepless prisoners, rising screams and sudden silence fuelled a chilling internet legend that still ...

A century-old thought experiment on wave–particle duality is brought into the laboratory using a single trapped atom ...

Science is built on reproducibility; if someone else can replicate your results, chances are pretty good that you’re looking at the truth. And there’s no statute of limitations on reproducibility; ...

Scientists are conducting a long-term experiment on evolution to investigate how single-celled organisms could evolve into multicellular lifeforms. After thousands of generations, their yeast grew ...

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