The first animals on Earth may have been sea sponges, chemical fossils suggest

A team of MIT geochemists has unearthed new evidence in very old rocks suggesting that some of the first animals on Earth ...

When the wheels come off: Lessons from Sonoma on racing, resilience, and engine oil

I went to Sonoma for a NASCAR race and found out heat is the bad guy, fluids are the secret weapon, and Valvoline’s engineers ...
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Science history: Alexander Fleming wakes up to funny mold in his petri dish, and accidentally discovers the first antibiotic — Sept. 28, 1928

Alexander Fleming was doing experiments with bacteria when he woke up to a strange mold growing in his petri dish. The "mold ...
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UC San Diego Chemists Form Lifelong Bonds

Tezcan: The most unexpected thing has been that our original ideas from when my lab first started at UC San Diego not only ...

100 years before quantum mechanics, one scientist glimpsed a link between light and matter

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...