Established in 1991, the Ig Nobels are a good-natured parody of the Nobel Prizes; they honor "achievements that first make people laugh and then make them think." The unapologetically campy awards ...

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This year’s IAEA Scientific Forum has highlighted how nuclear sciences and isotope hydrology are advancing solutions to global water challenges. The flagship side event at the 69th IAEA General ...

An international team of scientists spent three months at sea drilling into a huge, mysterious reservoir of freshwater under the salty ocean. They hope it could help tackle an increasingly severe ...

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A new approach for making the chemical ammonia using plasma — the fourth state of matter — could revolutionize how hydrogen is stored and transported and drive down the price of various manufacturing ...

Viking consisted of two twin orbiters and landers, with experimental chambers in the landers to conduct three biology ...

A team of researchers, including those at the University of Tokyo, discovered that liquid water once flowed on the asteroid ...

Taking lessons from biology, UChicago researchers develop system that controls chemical transport at atomic scale ...