The building blocks of rocky planets may have begun forming just 100 million years after the Big Bang—long before the first galaxies even existed—according to new research from the University of ...

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 ...

Mary Embree discovered saxitoxin as a poison for a secret CIA “heart attack gun” that could kill undetectably while mimicking natural causes during covert operations. The Church Committee exposed the ...

Scientists have predicted the existence of a particle made of gluons for a long time, but detecting it has taken decades.

Using an advanced X-ray laser, researchers created a kind of molecular “movie” showing electron motion during the opening ...

Croatia was still dealing with the hidden legacy of the Balkan wars when scientists began looking to an unlikely ally: honeybees. Years after mines had been buried across fields, forests and rural ...

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and the continent’s wildfires are now big enough, hot ...

Jack Clark, Anthropic’s co-founder, left on paternity leave last November. When he returned in February, he was surprised to ...

The Aug. 15 event features a 500-ball liquid nitrogen blast, hydrogen balloon explosion, watermelon gravity drops and other ...

Stanford researchers discovered immune cells in flatworms that explode within minutes, killing nearby bacteria and foreign cells before vanishing completely. Their unusually fast and localized attack ...

The stray upper stage (section) of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is about the size of a five-storey building, with a mass of at ...

What’s the most Scottish thing you’ve ever done? Climbed Arthur’s Seat in sunshine, rain, wind and hail within the same hour.