The periodic table is chemistry’s holy text. Not only does it list all of the tools at chemists’ disposal, but its mere…
Pee contains some pretty amazing stuff. Scientists have known for nearly a decade that it’s possible to produce bricks…
You might wonder why, given all the hype, there isn’t graphene in every product you own yet. Well, a new study has…
A trio of scientists from the U.S. and the UK have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year for using evolution to…
They seem like a mundane piece of stationary, just one of hundreds of tools helping you to get through college, but appa…
Humans have been producing and consuming cheese for a very long time, as the recent discovery of 3,200-year-old cheese…
A team of scientists announced they have harvested hydrogen from water in microgravity—a proof-of-principle test that…
Rivers and streams cover much more of the planet than geologists previously estimated, according to a new study…
Using data collected by NASA’s late-great Cassini space probe, scientists have detected traces of complex organic…
We tend to associate industrial pollution with the modern era, but human civilizations have been contaminating the…
Good news, future lunar colonists! Scientists have discovered traces of moganite in a lunar meteorite that was…
NASA announced today that it has completed tests of its Kilopower portable nuclear fission reactor, a device designed…
A team of physicists has figured out how to bend diamonds, according to a new paper. Okay, we’re talking about…
Back in 2008, an 80-ton meteor exploded over the Nubian Desert of Sudan, showering the region with hundreds of tiny…
Finally, scientists have delivered exactly what you’ve been asking for: an edible polymer gel made with caffeine.…
You may make fun, but Ivanka Trump’s very dumb science photo op is actually what most people think when they hear…
What makes something red, or blue, or green? It’s all in the way light bounces off its surface. Something that…
I’m not gonna lie. Sometimes I see a science paper and think, dang, that’s really cool, I really wish it could do X.…
The United States is dealing with a drug shortage—a legal injection drug shortage, that is. In response, states where…
H20 is oh-so very weird. It’s on the lighter side of gases, but it’s one of the denser liquids. It’s got an abnormally…
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