You'll not believe what happens when you mix sugar and sulfuric acid together I toured the White House to see Melania Trump's Christmas decorations. The East Wing is no more, but the display was still ...

Venus may be a hellscape by our standards, but there’s a chance that some forms of life could evolve there. A new MIT study has now found that the building blocks of life are surprisingly stable in ...

Our nearest planetary neighbor may be more friendly to life than we previously thought. Venus has long been assumed to be uninhabitable: its thick carbon dioxide atmosphere is swirling with yellow ...

If Venus hosts lifeforms in its toxic clouds, they likely won't be deprived of amino acids, one of the essential building blocks of life (as we know it). At least, that's what scientists say is the ...

Molecules released by trees can seed clouds, two experiments have revealed. The findings, published on May 25 in Nature and Science, run contrary to an assumption that the pollutant sulphuric acid is ...

Back in “the old days” (that is, when I was a kid), kids led lives of danger and excitement. We rode bikes with no protective gear. We stayed out roaming the streets after dark without adult ...

One of the great puzzles of geophysics is how the Earth generates and maintains its magnetic field. The general thinking is that when conducting material in Earth’s outer core moves due to convection, ...