Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a surprisingly simple way to turn polyethylene, the common plastic used in

Scientists have found evidence that black holes of vastly different sizes may launch powerful jets according to the same universal

Physicists have put a decades-old idea about why the strange rules of quantum mechanics disappear in our everyday world to

Ancient DNA reveals that plague repeatedly returned to Europe for more than 400 years after the Black Death, evolving into

A decade-long NIST experiment has produced a new measurement of the universal gravitational constant that differs unexpectedly from another leading

Scientists have developed ultra-bright nanoparticles that can detect tiny amounts of chemicals and distinguish between molecules that look almost identical.

Researchers may have solved a long-running mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls by proposing that the Qumran sect really did

Cats may identify one another through a surprisingly durable chemical “calling card” made from 13 unusual fatty acids in their

A single-celled organism can shrink to one-quarter of its length in milliseconds using a remarkable calcium-powered protein “fishnet.” Scientists hope

A deep-sea microbe uses an exceptionally heat-resistant enzyme to turn atmospheric nitrogen into ammonia at temperatures that would destroy most