A 2023 study published in Science Advances identified the mechanism that has kept Roman harbors, aqueducts, and seawalls intact for two thousand years while modern concrete often cracks within decades ...

School of Chemistry and Forensic Science, Division of Natural Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NH, U.K. Article Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since ...

In a Penn State lab, a small cylinder of soil sits wired with sensors, slowly cooling as it mimics conditions thousands of ...

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

An artist’s rendering of a black hole like the one in the center of our galaxy. While the black disk in the center is the ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...

In Acient Greece, thousands journeyed down the Sacred Way to reach Eleusis and undergo initiation into the Eleusinian ...

NASA's upgraded Cold Atom Lab came back online aboard the International Space Station this week — the fourth and final hardware overhaul of a facility that has spent eight years turning the ISS into ...

The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has identified mineral and organic patterns inside a Martian rock that the agency now describes as ...

On July 4, 2026, a time capsule filled with memorabilia will be buried in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall to be uncovered 250 years in the future. To withstand the centuries, it’s designed ...

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2012. Identifying the conditions for complete metallization of diamond ...