For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Indiana leaders gathered Thursday to consider how the state could mine its ample coal waste for the rare earth elements key ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many millilitres are in 2.4 litres of water (it’s 2,400). But the same can’t ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly forming stars, and new observations have only deepened the puzzle ...

Hage’s research focuses on advancing affinity chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and hybrid analytical platforms to ...

In times of financial uncertainty, it's always helpful to find a new source of cash. One often-unknown way to get some extra money is by tapping into potentially unclaimed funds you may have ...

Scientists have decoded the atomic-level secrets behind catalysts that turn propane into propylene. Their algorithms reveal unexpected oxide behavior that stabilizes the catalytic reaction by ...

Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster ...

Within a year, Mirkin and Ivankin had cofounded TERA-print, a company that provides nanofabrication services based on beam pen lithography, another invention from the Mirkin lab. The lithography ...