Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

More Sloan fellows are affiliated with UC than with any other institution granted the awards this year, and UC leads all ...

Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unleashed artificial intelligence to dramatically speed up the hunt for next-generation magnetic materials. By building a massive, searchable ...

A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...

Computer scientists Maria Apostolaki, Benjamin Eysenbach, and Yasaman Ghasempour; chemists William Jacobs and Erin Stache; physicist Isobel Ojalvo; and mathematician Bartolomeo Stellato are members of ...

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has named 126 new Sloan Research Fellows. They were selected as being among the most promising ...

Antarctic glacier bleeds red water, and scientists reveal hidden pressure beneath the mysterious millennial ice.

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...

New method reveals chemical signs of early microbial life in ancient Earth rocks, showing photosynthesis evolved much earlier than believed.

In A Nutshell Mars was erupting while T. rex roamed Earth: A Martian volcano system was active between 64 and 50 million ...

EaglePicher Technologies, which has been a part of space exploration since its earliest days, is going back soon as part of the Artemis moon missions. “It’s exciting because we were there when NASA ...

The Sloan Research Fellows are among the most promising early-career researchers in the U.S. and Canada, already driving meaningful progress in their respective disciplines,” said Stacie Bloom, ...