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For decades, scientists believed water was the essential cradle for life. But new research suggests life’s building blocks ...

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Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, appears to have the right ingredients and conditions for a certain kind of tiny bubble to form ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

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One of the most exciting places to study resilient microbes, that survive without sunlight, is Europa, a moon of Jupiter, ...

Naturally occurring "white hydrogen" lies in vast reservoirs beneath our feet – now the gold rush of the clean energy era is ...

A new breakthrough in hydrogen fuel production uses unlikely ingredients: recycled aluminum, seawater, and caffeine at an ...

MP Materials, which runs the only American rare earths mine, announced a new $500 million agreement with tech giant Apple on ...

A naturally occurring mineral, talc consists of several elements like magnesium and silicon. When ground into fine particles, ...