Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating ...

Confronted with a dependence on China and an escalating war with Iran, the Pentagon is now putting money behind domestic ...

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Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

Researchers have uncovered an unusual new form of aluminium that challenges long-held assumptions about how this common metal ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

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Tracking Atlantic sturgeon is hard, vital for conservation. Scientists analyze ear bones & fin rays—structures recording a ...