Engineered wax moth larvae may become a fast, low-cost way to study infections and screen new drugs before testing in mammals ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have trapped a single plutonium atom inside a tiny molecular cage, using only six micrograms of the radioactive metal. The work turns an element ...

MARBLEHEAD— Newly released emails, financial records, and scheduling communications show that Jeremy Rubin, a Marblehead native and Bitcoin developer, maintained intermittent technical and ...

The U.S. Marine Corps is preparing to plug an experimental “digital brain” into its YFQ‑42A wingman drone, turning an Avenger‑based airframe into a testbed for advanced autonomy. Backed by money in ...

Ultimately, the gel-first hypothesis does not claim to provide a definitive answer to the origin of life. Rather, it offers a conceptual framework—one that integrates soft-matter physics, systems ...

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

Boeing is retiring one of its most legendary testbeds ...

Scientists have discovered how to make people less selfish - slightly and temporarily - by stimulating two areas of the brain.

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...

Neutrinos are very small, neutral subatomic particles that rarely interact with ordinary matter and are thus sometimes ...

One of the greatest mysteries of our planet is how a soup of lifeless chemicals transformed into the first living cell. There are several competing theories about where this happened, from frozen ...