From the burning of wood to the action of medicines, the properties and behavior of matter are governed by the way chemical elements bond with one another. For many of the 118 known elements, the ...

Explore the Yinyang philosophy's iconic symbols and their profound representation of balance in art and nature.

In a Physical Review Letters study, the HOLMES collaboration has achieved the most stringent upper bound on the effective ...

Many space-lovers know the phrase "We are all made of star stuff." And it's true - our planet formed from the dust cloud left over from the formation of our Sun, and from the planet, all life. That ...

For countless home cooks, the humble hard-boiled egg represents both simplicity and challenge a food so basic yet capable of ...

Every year in October our UCSB Physics faculty present an explanation of the Nobel Prize in Physics for that year.

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In principle, countries should be able to capture digital trade through their systems of national accounts. But in practice, ...

There must be something about the human brain that’s different from the brains of other animals — something that enables humans to plan, imagine the future, solve crossword puzzles, tell sarcastic ...

NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell joins “Here’s the Scoop” co-host Yasmin Vossoughian to explain the difference between a weapons ...