The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Sometimes science can be painfully slow. Data comes in dribs and drabs, truth trickles, and veracity proves viscous. The ...

Running for nearly a century, this quiet experiment proves a “solid” can flow, drop by drop, while generations of scientists ...

Scientists now believe that a burst of life known as a gamma ray may have helped play a vital role in the origins of life on Earth. Further, the finding may actually provide some clues as to how the ...

An experiment started in 1927 by Thomas Parnell aimed to prove pitch is a super-viscous fluid. Over 96 years, only nine drops ...

Since then, the team of over 1,370 researchers from 44 international institutions who contributed to the project over decades has worked to verify and document the results of that experiment. The ...

Researchers may have made a massive breakthrough in quantum computing. According to a new study published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers may have discovered a cheaper way to push large-scale ...

Ugly chocolate Christmas candies were the “aha” moment that turned a holiday treat into a lab experiment for Jessica Chastain’s middle school students. About 14 years ago, Chastain, a veteran teacher ...

In a quiet corner of a physics building in Australia, a glass funnel filled with a tar-like substance has been dripping so ...