Hungarian biologist Tibor Gánti is an obscure figure. Now, more than a decade after his death, his ideas about how life began ...

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Fashion, beauty, and food companies are using nonsensical jargon to make a sale.

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Blockchain could make smart devices far more secure, but sluggish data sharing has held it back. Researchers found that messy ...

Scientists question whether alarming reports of plastic particles in human organs are accurate or the result of laboratory contamination.

Here are 10 fun science experiments you can do at home, using simple household materials. This compilation is packed with easy, beginner-friendly experiments that demonstrate real science in a way ...

When quantum spins interact, they can produce collective behaviors that defy long-standing expectations. Researchers have now shown that the Kondo effect behaves very differently depending on spin ...

A single enzyme that can generate all four nucleotide triphosphates, the building blocks of ribonucleic acid (RNA), was identified by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo. By using ...

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A new social-science paper delivers a surprisingly unsettling result: give dozens of expert teams the same data and the same ...