Carell and colleagues were inspired by ribosomes shown here translating a strand of RNA.Credit: Omikron/Science Photo Library Chemists say they have solved a crucial problem in a theory of lifes beg… [+4194 chars]
One day in late September a box-shaped spacecraft weighing approximately half a ton will slam into an asteroid seven million miles away from Earth at a speed of 15,000mph, in a bid to knock it into a… [+8838 chars]
Evidence is growing that Mars, now cold and dry, had liquid water running on its surface much more recently than previously thought. Scientists have long believed that Mars was wet around 3 billio… [+3024 chars]
It's not every day that someone comes across a new state of matter in quantum physics, the scientific field devoted to describing the behavior of atomic and subatomic particles in order to elucidate … [+5392 chars]
SANTIAGO, May 11 (Reuters) - Chilean scientists successfully recovered one of the world's most complete ichthyosaur fossils with intact embryos from the Tyndall Glacier in Chile's Patagonia region. … [+1855 chars]