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If Spider-Man's web is anything like spider silk, it's surprisingly realistic
Carbon nanotubes are basically a sheet of carbon atoms that's been rolled up into a tube. And if Ji…
David Anderson,Shira Polan
Scientists have made a bizarre lifeform that bonds carbon to silicon
Chemist Raymond Dessy, in a 2010 Scientific American article titled "Could silicon be the basis for…
Dave Mosher
Scientists have evolved a remarkable new form of life that can bond silicon to carbon
Chemist Raymond Dessy, in a 2010 Scientific American article titled "Could silicon be the basis for…
Dave Mosher
New Chemical Signals From The Middle Of Our Galaxy Are A Good Sign For Alien Life
Located 27,000 light years from Earth toward the center of our galaxy is one of the largest molecul…
Jessica Orwig
There's new evidence that life on Earth began with meteorites crashing into warm little ponds
In a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researc…
Kevin Loria
'It's the next rising platform': 2 promising technologies backed by billion-dollar drugmakers could transform the human body into a disease-destroying machine
Another application might be in treating obesity, she said. Gut peptides help the body take in food…
Emma Court
We might not exist if not for this accident that happened 600 million years ago
They found that a mutation in the gene that encoded the animal's tail allowed it to align itself wi…
Tanya Lewis
Here's The History Of Everything In 10 Steps, According To Bill Gates's Favorite Historian
In a wildly popular 2011 TED Talk, Christian gave us an overview of what Big History is all about. …
Natasha Bertrand
Crazy maps reveal colonies of bacteria and chemicals all over the human body
It's important to note that these maps are only representative of two people - there is likely a hu…
Microsoft just forged a key alliance with the Swiss pharma giant Novartis to win a bigger piece of an $11 billion market
The first is using AI for exploration, seeing whether researchers can sift through Novartis' resear…
Lydia Ramsey
The science of why flowers smell so good
Firstly, it's important to realise that aroma chemistry is complex, and the smell of any flower is …
Andy Brunning
Here are some of the gaping holes in Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos' plans to conquer space
A second change astronauts undergo is to their microbiome. "There is as many cells in you, and on y…
Isobel Asher Hamilton,Isobel …
An ancient collision might explain a longstanding mystery about how Earth collected the ingredients for life
The scientists had been studying how carbon would behave if it had been present during Earth's earl…
Ali Sundermier
The first photos of water on Pluto are puzzling scientists in 2 ways
The "tholin colorants" that Protopapa is referring to are a type of molecule that is generally red …
Jessica Orwig
New Brain Research Could Help Us Live Longer
"If we just activated this pathway in the hypothalamus, it accelerated aging," study researcher Don…
Robert Ferris
Scientists Have Discovered A New 'Quasiparticle'
Scientists created the particles by using an ultrafast red laser that sends 100 million pulses per …
Kelly Dickerson
Alcohol 'Antidote' Could One Day Sober You Up Fast
In the future, it's possible that popping a pill of these compounds after a night out before bed co…
Jennifer Welsh
Discovery Of Underground Water Means Saturn's Moon Could Hold Life
"Material from Enceladus' south polar jets contains salty water and organic molecules, the basic ch…
Jennifer Welsh
Pluto is hiding a gigantic liquid ocean you would never, ever want to swim in
"Life can tolerate a lot of stuff: It can tolerate a lot of salt, extreme cold, extreme heat, etc. …
Dave Mosher
Biotech startup says it has nearly perfected making wine in a lab
"We need to first demonstrate the quality of this process," Lee says. "Once we've done that, then w…