Carbon nanotubes are basically a sheet of carbon atoms that's been rolled up into a tube. And if Ji…

Chemist Raymond Dessy, in a 2010 Scientific American article titled "Could silicon be the basis for…

Chemist Raymond Dessy, in a 2010 Scientific American article titled "Could silicon be the basis for…

Located 27,000 light years from Earth toward the center of our galaxy is one of the largest molecul…

In a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researc…

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They found that a mutation in the gene that encoded the animal's tail allowed it to align itself wi…

In a wildly popular 2011 TED Talk, Christian gave us an overview of what Big History is all about. …

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A second change astronauts undergo is to their microbiome. "There is as many cells in you, and on y…

The scientists had been studying how carbon would behave if it had been present during Earth's earl…

The "tholin colorants" that Protopapa is referring to are a type of molecule that is generally red …

"If we just activated this pathway in the hypothalamus, it accelerated aging," study researcher Don…

Scientists created the particles by using an ultrafast red laser that sends 100 million pulses per …

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"Material from Enceladus' south polar jets contains salty water and organic molecules, the basic ch…

"Life can tolerate a lot of stuff: It can tolerate a lot of salt, extreme cold, extreme heat, etc. …

"We need to first demonstrate the quality of this process," Lee says. "Once we've done that, then w…