Scientists are digging into the hidden makeup of carbon-rich asteroids to see whether they could one day fuel space ...

A small, icy moon of Saturn called Enceladus is one of the prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system ...

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Machine learning is transforming many scientific fields, including computational materials science. For about two decades, scientists have been using it to make accurate yet inexpensive calculations ...

The novel design for the new qubit uses the chemical element tantalum in tandem with a special silicon substrate, creating ...

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Scientists are decoding fragile meteorites to uncover which small asteroids could become future treasure troves for space ...

James Webb Space Telescope data reveals chemical evidence of massive early stars, offering clues about the formation of supermassive black holes ...

Darleane Hoffman, an Iowa State University graduate, went on to become a renowned nuclear chemist before passing away at 98.

A research team from the Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory has developed an AI-guided "Recommendation System" to discover new metallic glasses (MG). By combining element embeddings learned from ...

Hydrothermal systems at mid-ocean ridges (MOR) transfer heat, metals, and carbon from Earth’s interior to the deep ocean, influencing pathways of chemical eleme ...