One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

Turtle shells evolved over the course of 300 million years, but self-defense wasn't the initial driver, researchers think.

The Hidden Architecture of Earth's Interior Earth's structure resembles a giant onion with distinct layers, each playing a ...

Shell U.K. Limited, a subsidiary of Shell and Equinor UK Limited, a subsidiary of Equinor, completed a deal to combine their UK offshore oil and gas operations to form a new company, described as the ...

Oil and gas majors Shell and Equinor have completed the transaction to combine their offshore UK oil and gas operations in a 50/50 joint venture, Adura, which will be UK’s largest independent North ...

The binary system Apep has a stack of four nested dust shells around two Wolf-Rayet stars. A third star creates a wedge-shaped gap in the pattern. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Yinuo Han / Ryan White / ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that an exceptionally rare star duo in the Milky Way has a third companion — and it's a monster. The star system, named Apep after the Egyptian god of ...

A few years ago, the Gwich’in jeweler Tania Larsson was on the hunt for materials to create some new pieces. Specifically, Larsson was searching for dentalium shells—the long, tubular shells deriving ...

Charlie Kirk was killed on 10 September 2025 during a stop on his American Comeback Tour at Utah Valley University, where he was debating with the audience when a rooftop gunman opened fire. Erika ...

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells (capsids) around their genomes, a process that—while messy and complex—consistently ...