This 'solar system' model of the atom is the way that most people think about atoms today. It is known as the Rutherford-Bohr model of atomic structure. The neutron was difficult to discover ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon ... Where diamond has a regular crystal structure, graphene (or at least the Platonic ideal of graphene) is a flat, single-atom-thick sheet of ...

Finally, the three-domain structure of Woese's tree ... However, the actual prominence of viruses in the biosphere and their role in the evolution of life were not revealed until the advances ...

The idea of the atom as the building block of matter has ... are exposed to sources of radiation in all aspects of everyday life. Radioactive sources can be very useful but need handling carefully ...

that they had "found the secret of life." But James Watson and Francis Crick's claim was a valid one, for they had in fact discovered the structure of DNA, the chemical that encodes instructions ...

One of the world's greatest mysteries is how life on Earth began. Scientists have long sought to decipher where and how prebiotic molecules - those that preceded life - emerged. A new study ...

Water is a unique compound that is essential to life on Earth. In the pedosphere ... in soils can be directly related to its molecular structure. Aa Aa Aa "Water is the driving force of all ...

In this guide, we'll explore how the solar system formed, its structure, and the many fascinating objects it contains. The solar system is a collection of celestial objects bound to the sun by ...

not only for signs of life, but everything else," he said. "With K2-18b part of the scientific debate is still about the structure of the planet." Dr Nicolas Wogan at Nasa's Ames Research Center ...

By Carl Zimmer The search for life beyond Earth has led scientists to explore many suggestive mysteries, from plumes of methane on Mars to clouds of phosphine gas on Venus. But as far as we can ...