You'll not believe what happens when you mix sugar and sulfuric acid together I toured the White House to see Melania Trump's Christmas decorations. The East Wing is no more, but the display was still ...

If Venus hosts lifeforms in its toxic clouds, they likely won't be deprived of amino acids, one of the essential building blocks of life (as we know it). At least, that's what scientists say is the ...

Venus may be a hellscape by our standards, but there’s a chance that some forms of life could evolve there. A new MIT study has now found that the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in ...

Figure 1: Growth rates as a function of sulfuric acid and highly oxygenated molecule (HOM) concentrations. We further consider two very different experiments. During the first experiment, the HOM ...

One unusual hypothesis we’ve covered several times in the past is the idea that cosmic rays—charged particles from beyond our solar system that constantly bombard the Earth—play a significant role in ...

One of the great puzzles of geophysics is how the Earth generates and maintains its magnetic field. The general thinking is that when conducting material in Earth’s outer core moves due to convection, ...

LONDON. Physical Society, November 14.—Prof. S. P. Thompson, president, in the chair.—A paper on the theory of the aluminium anode, by W. W. Taylor and J.?.?. Inglis, was read by Mr. Inglis. Aluminium ...