The new investigation could take ‘multiple days’ as the FBI and EPA examine materials at the home, officials said.

Material collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contains 14 of the 20 amino acids used in Earth proteins and all five nucleobases that encode DNA and RNA. The findings, ...

In the farthest reaches of the planetary plane, at an average distance from the Sun four times that of Saturn, lurks Pluto – ...

Researchers have developed a compact, low-cost convolutional spectrometer that delivers lab-grade precision for applications ...

Fusion energy has always had a tritium problem. The fuel that powers every leading reactor design barely exists on Earth in usable quantities, and the best candidate for breeding it inside a reactor — ...

Join me on a tour of the UC Berkeley campus as we discover some historic sites where UC Berkeley has contributed to the ...

A staple for summertime activities- fireworks! Where do they get their characteristic color from? I traveled down to the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected 21 carbon-containing organic molecules in a single drilled rock sample from Mars, and ...

A slew of start-ups and academic labs are leaning on AI agents and bots, rather than humans, to speed up their chemistry ...

One September day, it started to snow inside MIT's Pierce Laboratory. Researchers depressurized a tank of liquid carbon dioxide (CO 2), instantly freezing it and releasing solid flakes. These were ...

The inaugural lecture originated in medieval times, when universities operated like guilds of scholars. The introductory lecture in those days was a declaration of intellectual mastery to show that ...

Inside a lab in midtown Manhattan, a robotic arm lifts small glass bottles and carefully mixes and weighs pellets of iron and other elements. Nearby, another machine melts the material into an alloy; ...