Using a highly sensitive mass spectrometer capable of detecting trace chemicals, the researchers discovered that their early Earth simulation created an entire collection of sulfur biomolecules. These ...

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From intricate windcatchers to innovative air channels, ancient engineers mastered natural cooling thousands of years before ...

Some stories sound made up until you see the evidence lined along the shore. In northern Tanzania, Lake Natron transforms ...

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Invented by accident in the 1920s, the unusual electronic instrument is hard to master but offers an enticing reward: freedom ...

What is little known though, is that across every continent and every epoch this same forbidden technique appears under different names: Ba-flight in Egypt, pneuma-ekstasis in Greece, shen-you in ...

MIT researchers traced chemical fossils in ancient rocks back to the ancestors of today’s demosponges. A team of geochemists ...

In Spain, the Cave of the Bats, Albuñol, held a major secret: bowstrings discovered in the 19th century predate those used by ...

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust ...

Histotripsy does more than mechanically break down tumours. When tumour cells are fragmented, they release cellular debris ...

The universe occasionally produces a huge surprise that proves physicists wrong, says Kip Thorne, who grew up in Logan, Utah, ...