Scientists have just unveiled the lightest human-made substance on Earth. How light are we talking? Let’s put it this way: it’s less dense than helium. The battle for rights to the title of ...

Case in point: graphene. Graphene, which was heretofore, the strongest material known to man, is made from an extremely thin sheet of carbon atoms arranged in two dimensions. But there’s one ...

Formed millions to billions of years ago, diamonds can shine light into the darkest and oldest parts of the Earth's mantle ... The goal was to trace how material was added to the keel of the ...

Not only does the new hypothesis shed light on the origins of the spike ... period and the dating of the craters and meteorite material, Earth’s possible ring could have lasted 20 million ...