New laboratory studies could shed light on a rock containing potential signs of alien life that’s stranded on Mars ...
One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) effort to repeal the endangerment finding through rulemaking faces legal risks due to the agency’s reliance on a Department of Energy (DOE) report that ...
On November 14, 2025, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published a report entitled Synthesis Report on Understanding Fluoropolymers and Their Life Cycle.
Foundation models are AI systems trained on vast amounts of data — often trillions of individual data points — and they are capable of learning new ways of modeling information and performing a range ...
Knots are everywhere—from tangled headphones to DNA strands packed inside viruses—but how an isolated filament can knot ...
Carl Sagan famously said that "We're all made of star stuff." But he didn't elaborate on how that actually happened. Yes, ...
Scientists found that messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules that carry genetic instructions to the far reaches of neurons in the brain tend to cluster together mostly because they are abundant, not because ...
The fundamental nature of living things challenges assumptions that physicists have held for centuries.