They suggest that magnetic surfaces on minerals in bodies of water on the primordial Earth, charged by the planet’s magnetic field, could have served as “chiral agents” that attracted some forms of ...

A small, round piece of asteroid Ryugu (sample #91), called “S-lunar,” contains tiny particles (less than 1 mm) that will ...

Microbes can change magnetic properties of soils, according to recent work from the University of Delaware. Senior author on the paper is Estella A. Atekwana, now dean of the College of Letters and ...

A new study reveals Earth's magnetic flips can last up to 70,000 years, exposing life to increased solar radiation.

A peculiar magnetic anomaly detected beneath the Northern Territory suggests the presence of unknown rock formations. Advanced airborne magnetic surveys revealed this anomaly, distinct from ...

Researchers from the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Oxford have resolved a long-standing debate about the ...

Like the Marvel comic book hero, we are all iron men and women. Iron composes the heme of hemoglobin, the red pigment in our blood. It's stored in ferritin, a protein ubiquitous in almost all living ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1848, when Louis Pasteur was a young chemist still years away from discovering how to sterilize milk, he discovered something ...