Professor Jeffrey Grossman is on a mission to get students to think critically about materials they interact with every day.

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

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A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

About two weeks after a fire at Moss Landing Power Plant in Monterey County, San Jose State University scientists reported unusually high concentrations of heavy metals in the soils of Elkhorn Slough ...

Evaluating multilayer coatings for neural implants, this study finds hafnium-based ALD layers excel in biostability, ensuring ...

Undergraduate MIT class blends science, hands-on experimentation, and a love for coffee to fuel curiosity. In a pioneering ...

Europe's water bodies are in poor condition: more than half of them are heavily polluted with chemicals. This is hardly ...