Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The "primordial soup theory" proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

My childhood fascination with the night sky led me to study astronomy and physics at university. By my second year, I was ...

A stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism up to 2 mm long. It uses its holdfast to anchor to surfaces in ponds or ...

Heat transfer and fluid flow are fundamental to the efficiency, sustainability, and reliability of modern energy systems. Rapid global increases in energy ...

Why do some crowds move in an orderly fashion while others devolve into a chaotic jumble? New research led by an MIT ...

ORNL researchers study quantum computing for fluid dynamics, aiming to enhance industrial design and energy production.

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory tested a quantum computing approach to an old ...