What He Thought Was Gold Was Actually a 4.6-Billion-Year-Old Find ...

The 2026 Olympic gold medal is formed of 500 grams of sterling silver, an alloy containing 92.5 percent by weight of silver and 7.5 percent by weight of other metals. They are then coated with 6 grams ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...

Analysis of asteroid Bennu samples suggests life's building blocks formed in frozen outer Solar System, not warm asteroid interiors.

Abstract: With the onset of the big data era, data assets have emerged as a crucial source of competitive advantage for companies, underscoring the significance of accurately valuing data. This paper ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

Known non-biological sources, from meteorites to surface chemistry, fall short of accounting for organic compounds detected ...

We start this week with a bit of a good news/bad news situation. On February 6th, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was shut down after 25 years of operation. Located at Brookhaven ...

A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized. By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest ...