February 7 is National Periodic Table Day, when we celebrate the efforts of scientists over the centuries to figure out how different elements ...

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

A University of Hawaii at Mānoa study on the freezing of water droplets suspended in air sheds light on a key process in ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

However, the discovery of the quasiparticle known as anyons could prove vital for developing future quantum computers, so the further exploration of these paraparticles could lead science into new ...

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When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

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The colossal clomp crater discovered during an expedition to the Gobi Desert conducted over the summer by Okayama University of Science (OUS) and the Institute of Paleontology, Mongolian Academy ...

According to scientists from the California Institute ... colder or of different composition than their counterparts. The discovery even led the ETH Zurich announcement to bluntly ask, “Is ...