Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new and faster method for ...

Scientists have developed a supercooled sensor that delivers full radioactivity profiles without chemical tracers.

Scientists have developed tiny nanocrystal particles made up of isotopes of the elements lanthanum, vanadium, and oxygen for ...

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

The oldest terrestrial materials ever dated by scientists are extremely rare zircon minerals that were discovered in western ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

Cave data shows the Arctic was permafrost-free when Earth was 4.5˚C warmer, hinting at what rising temperatures could bring.