The study, led by professors Sun Jian and Ge Qingjie at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was published in Nature on Wednesday.
Syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is a…
Editor’s note: This release was updated at 7:28 p.m. EDT on April 6, 2026, to reflect Orion’s final closest approach to the lunar surface from about 4,070 miles to about 4,067 miles. NASA also updated the farthest distance Orion will…
For the first time since the Apollo era, humans are preparing not just to visit the Moon, but to live and work there for weeks, months, and eventually years.
But what would it really be like to spend an extended period on the lunar surface?…
Is consciousness simply created by the brain, or could it be a deeper feature of reality itself? That question is at the center of a presentation by Christof Koch, a leading figure in modern neuroscience, at the 15th “Behind and Beyond the Brain”…
Predicting volcanic eruptions before they occur is valuable for obvious reasons. The earlier scientists detect signs of an imminent eruption, the more time people will have to evacuate potentially affected areas. Unfortunately, as volcanologist…
An assemblage of more than 700 Ediacaran fossils from the end of the Ediacaran period indicates that key animal groups — including early relatives of vertebrates — were already diversifying millions of years earlier than long believed.
Microplastics have become a defining environmental signature of modern life, turning up in oceans, soil, food, drinking water, and even the air. But their biological fate inside the…
As NASA’s Artemis II crew made history today by traveling farther from Earth than any humans ever have, another unexpected passenger quietly drifted into frame: a jar of Nutella.
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A new nanoscale analysis of the Bennu sample OREX-800066-3 returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission shows that organic compounds and minerals cluster into distinct regions, suggesting water once altered the asteroid in uneven, localized ways.