(via Veritasium) The factory that makes the world's most volatile substance.

At the dawn of the 20th century, old age wasn’t much of a problem. That’s because a newborn in 1900 could expect to live, on ...

By lifting a gene from wild rice and breeding it into domestic crops, researchers have created a perennial crop that can live for two years or more. That could lead to rice that can produce several ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our ...

My first encounter with the importance of oil was in 1962. I had just watched an episode of the witty sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies that began with a catchy theme song: “Come and listen to my story ...

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor (opens a new tab) took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our ...

Aubril. As a reward, he returned to cleaning an intriguing Cambrian arthropod fossil he had recently received for review. At ...

Standing before a friendly crowd in March, Elon Musk laid out his plan for the future of his companies, and it was literally out of this world. Musk announced that his space-launch company, SpaceX, ...

This feed will provide continuous coverage of Artemis II mission activities with live commentary, beginning with tanking of ...