At the intersection of mathematics and nature, scientists have found intriguing and often beautiful designs. Pinecone scales ...

In classical physics, anything driven hard enough will eventually heat up, lose coherence, and settle into disorder. A new ...

New research suggests that the Earth's solid inner core is softer and more dynamic than previously thought, changing ideas.

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something ...

Drilling at the Topaz Project near Babbitt detected helium-3 around 14.5 ppb—comparable to Apollo lunar samples—within deep ...

The microwave is a kitchen superstar, a loyal friend for reheating last night’s takeout and making a quick bowl of oatmeal.

Cyclotron Road, a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program at Berkeley Lab, empowers leading science entrepreneurs to advance their technology ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

Gold has long been regarded as one of the most chemically inert elements, a stable constant in both scientific ...

When the US Department of Energy announced that it would stop funding the tokamak at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, ...