chemistry

It's been crazy cold this week, even down where I live in Louisiana, thanks to an outbreak of a polar vortex. This frigid air is bad for all kinds of things, including football helmets, apparently. But it's actually a great time to…

Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine are watermelon sugar high. The actors were pictured in a first look at their upcoming Prime Video movie The Idea of You, about mom Sophie (Hathaway) who takes her teen daughter to Coachella but ends…

Mary Yap has spent the last year and a half trying to get farmers to fall in love with basalt. The volcanic rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling magma, and can make soil less acidic. In…

(Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)   Before the Golden State Warriors officially got their title defense underway last season, the campaign took a turn for the worst as veteran forward Draymond Green was caught on camera…

The signal doesn’t necessarily have to be a visible color change—the team has also experimented with temperature. A second receptor pathway in these engineered plants responds to diazinon, an insecticide that’s currently banned for…

(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)   When the Los Angeles Clippers signed veteran guard Russell Westbrook off the buyout market late last season, he was expected to give them a big boost. Although he is a flawed player who lacks caution,…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and rocks beneath our feet there lies a vast biosphere with a global volume nearly twice that of all the world’s oceans.…

Miley said on the Call Your Daddy podcast that, frankly, she was a logical person more prone to stoically analyze what went wrong in a situation than freak out about it. Which, she acknowledged, isn't necessarily something you can tell…

On a spring day in 1978, a fisherman caught a tiger shark in the lagoon surrounding Enewetak Atoll, part of the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific. That shark, along with the remains of a green sea turtle it had swallowed, wound up in…

According to assembly theory, before Darwinian evolution can proceed, something has to select for multiple copies of high-AI objects from the Assembly Possible. Chemistry alone, Cronin said, might be capable of that—by narrowing down…