Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

LifeTracer is not a universal life detector. Rather, it provides a foundation for interpreting complex organic mixtures. The Bennu findings remind us that life-friendly chemistry may be widespread ...

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting carbon-13 into nitrogen-13 inside the SNO+ detector. By tracking two faint ...

The findings, published in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry, come from an analysis of 25 studies. The team compared neurometabolite levels, which are chemicals created during brain metabolism, ...

New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

New scientific investigations suggest that mental fatigue is far more than a passing feeling, it may be a biological signal ...

In March 2026, Kevin Jahnke will establish a research group on ‘Biomembrane Engineering’ at the new Heilbronn site of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research. Its focus will be on engineering ...

The company says its AI and synthetic biology platform can produce compounds not possible with traditional synthesis ...

NOTE: I say and write 10mL dextrose, but i mean 10g. There is clearly a bag of solid dextrose there. I have no idea how I ...

Six scientists from the Max Planck Society have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant this year. The projects cover the ...

ARE you struggling to turn down glasses of wine at all the Christmas parties this year, despite repeatedly vowing to cut back ...

NASA and JAXA’s XRISM mission detected chlorine and potassium in Cassiopeia A, revealing how supernovae forge life-essential ...