Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

Europa’s buried ocean has made it one of the most exciting places to search for life beyond Earth. However, new calculations suggest its seafloor may be calm, cold, and largely inactive, with little ...

BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. – When Paris Hoisington and her family found a message in a small bottle on the beach last month, it seemed the story had ended with the bottle’s 4,600-mile, eight-year journey.

New whiskies include wine yeast experiments from Holyrood Distillery, an older Benriach and a mystery blend whose recipe is ...

A fun mini-experiment with the small metal wire cage from a champagne bottle, explaining what it’s called and what you can do ...

The phrase “lightning in a bottle” is usually used as a metaphor for something rare or impossible to reproduce. In a recent YouTube experiment, a creator known as Electron Impressions gave the phrase ...

Researchers have uncovered surprising evidence that the deep ocean’s carbon-fixing engine works very differently than long assumed. While ammonia-oxidizing archaea were thought to dominate carbon ...

Scientists were tantalized when the Cassini spacecraft discovered molecules in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan that were too big for its onboard instruments to analyze. Now an international team ...

Handwritten messages from World War I soldiers found inside a bottle during beach clean-up in Australia – Credit: Debra Brown Australian soldiers slipped the letters into a bottle, closed the cap, and ...

On August 15, 1916, Australian soldier Malcolm Alexander Neville dashed off a two-page letter to his mother as he sailed aboard a troop ship headed to Europe to fight in World War I. “Having a real ...

During this week’s Beachcombing survey, I came across not one, not two, but three messages in bottles washed up along the beach. That makes six bottles found in the past month and brings my total to ...