How benzene built the modern world, and exposed its hidden costs

Explore benzene's transformative role in modern industry and its hidden health risks, revealing a complex legacy of ...

How do atoms form? A physicist explains where the atoms that make up everything around come from

Why did they form at that time? Astronomers know from observing distant exploding stars that the size of the universe has ...
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MIT physicists just found a way to see inside atoms

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

The Most Vexing Variable in the Search for E.T.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Astronomers expose CO-dark molecular gas, previously invisible to telescopes

An international team of astronomers has created the first-ever large-scale maps of a mysterious form of matter, known as ...