When ultraviolet light hits ice—whether in Earth's polar regions or on distant planets—it triggers a cascade of chemical ...

The inside of giant planets can reach pressures more than one million times the Earth's atmosphere. As a result of that ...

Corporate research is a major part of the global science ecosystem, and all eyes are on the sector amid federal funding cuts in the United States. Around the world, spin-off success stories and strong ...

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are rapidly transforming scientific research, with researchers across multiple ...

There are three things that I remember from my high-school Earth-science class: the swirling pink cover of the study book designed to help us pass New York State’s year-end test, the football player ...

A new study find that ice might actually be slippery due to the orientation of the dipoles in the material and how they align ...

Front Matter -- Thermal Structure of Deep Earth. Melting of Fe Alloys and the Thermal Structure of the Core / Rebecca A Fischer -- Temperature of the Lower Mantle and Core Based on Ab Initio Mineral ...

For more than a century, a single metal cylinder locked in a vault defined the kilogram — until it began to drift. Tiny ...

Physical chemists are focused on understanding the physical properties of atoms and molecules, the way chemical reactions work, and what these properties reveal. Their discoveries are based on ...

On August 30, 1871, Ernest Rutherford, who would later establish the groundwork for nuclear physics and be knighted as Sir Ernest Rutherford, was born in Nelson, New Zealand as the fourth of 12 ...