5+ hour, 4+ min ago   (625+ words) The je ne sais quoi that gives Black Ivory coffee its smooth, chocolatey flavor may lurk deep in the bowels of Earth's largest land animals. According to a new examination of the microbes that live in the guts of Asian…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (813+ words) A critical nutrient used to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin may have turned up in samples collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Tryptophan is one of the nine essential amino acids that the human body cannot make on its…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (682+ words) Fossilized remnants of ancient carbon from the heart of South Africa's Mpumalanga province have just yielded the earliest chemical evidence yet of life on Earth. According to a new analysis using machine learning, fragmentary traces of carbon from the Josefsdal…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (683+ words) A tiny, particle-sized engine that runs at temperatures approaching the innermost core of the Sun could open a window into the smallest extremes of thermodynamics. By levitating a single particle of silica in a vacuum and blasting it with synthetic…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (628+ words) What's the best way to reveal what an exoplanet is made of? Wait for it to get gravitationally shredded and engulfed by its star, of course! Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i, have spotted such a gruesome…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (798+ words) To study the inner workings of an atom's nucleus, scientists have traditionally relied on sophisticated particle colliders to blast nuclei apart with electrons. These colliders often require large facilities, some spanning kilometers, that can accelerate electrons to breakneck speeds in…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (727+ words) For the first time, astronomers have seen life's building blocks in ice beyond the borders of our galaxy. Among a mix of complex organic molecules trapped in ice circling a newborn star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, researchers found ethanol,…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (678+ words) A discovery about Saturn's moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry. There, in the extreme cold, some supposedly fundamentally incompatible molecules may combine to form solids that have never been seen before in the…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (567+ words) 'Forever chemicals' already have a shocking reputation, and now new research has linked these substances " named for the way they stick around in the environment for so long " to brain changes in children born to mothers exposed to common PFAS…...

2+ mon, 4+ week ago   (497+ words) Earth was a broiling mass of lava and rock before it took the form that it has today, and scientists have for the first time discovered traces of that very early 'proto Earth', hidden away in the deepest and oldest…...