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This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the ...

Is reading to your kids a bedtime ritual in your home? For many of us, it will be a visceral memory of our own childhoods. Or ...

Computer simulations help materials scientists and biochemists study the motion of macromolecules, advancing the development ...

Beneath yellow fruit, hidden within the roots of the iboga plant in the forests of Gabon, lies a sacred treasure that the ...

The deconstruction of cellulose is essential for the conversion of biomass into fuels and chemicals. But cellulose, the most ...

A team of researchers has developed a technique that makes high-dimensional quantum information encoded in light more ...

Do your wrinkles always form in the same pattern every time you're in the water for too long? According to new research from ...

By creating a more true-to-life representation of DNA's environment, researchers at Northwestern University have discovered ...

Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...

The "afterglow" of the universe is an important piece of evidence for the Big Bang. This background radiation also provides ...

A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.