Roughly 3.5 billion years ago, Gale Crater on Mars held a lake. The sediments that settled at its bottom have been locked in ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover finds complex carbon compounds in ancient Martian rock, deepening the mystery of life on the Red Planet.

Mechanochemistry is a growing field for chemical reactions that proceed in the solid state in the absence, or with minuscule ...

An engineered E. coli strain survived after one amino acid was designed out of many of its ribosomal proteins—an early test ...

Using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) aboard the Curiosity rover, scientists have identified more than 20 ...

Like most of the 2026 inductees into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Billy Idol has been eligible for quite a number of years. But unlike Iron Maiden, Sade, and Oasis, there’s no reason to wonder if ...

Metamorphic rocks are more than just beautiful formations — they’re time capsules that capture the heat, pressure, and chemical changes deep within Earth. From recording ancient tectonic collisions to ...

Renewable energy is energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed. Sunlight and wind, for example, are such sources that are constantly being ...

Hypersaline environments, such as solar salterns, soda lakes, deep-sea brines, salt mines, salted foods, and dry soils, are among the most challenging ...

The transport of pesticides in the atmosphere through drift and volatilization threatens both public and ecosystem health.