Scripps scientists show that ribose may have been nature’s preferred sugar for building RNA, offering new insight into how life’s molecular foundations may have formed before biology began. Today, ...

Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high ...

“The level of control the authors have achieved over an individual antimatter particle is unprecedented,” says Dmitry Budker, ...

Scientists have cracked open a mysterious layer inside batteries, using cutting-edge 3D atomic force microscopy to capture ...

Physicists at Osnabrück University have examined individual water molecules on the calcite surface in more detail. Their ...