You can't escape ozone in a big city, but we can all work to make less of it. Dan Smith shows how combining three oxygen ...

Whether it's neurons responding to electrical signals or plants stretching toward light, nature is filled with examples of biological materials that respond to their environment. Now, researchers want ...

A new study of the Helix Nebula shows a never-before-seen detail of how dying stars recycle elements. Researchers found it by ...

Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle made entirely of gluons ...

Scientists probing life’s deepest origins have uncovered evidence that the first free-living cells may have emerged not once, but twice. The findings suggest a striking possibility: life may share one ...

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Our understanding of the internal structure of protons is largely based on classical physics, but data compiled from ...

Neither of Monday's announcements are likely to immediately impact American diets, which are blamed for a host of chronic ...

Oxygen provides the driving force for many vital chemical reactions. Two well-known examples include respiration, the process ...