A new way to 'cage' plutonium

Plutonium (Pu) exhibits one of the most diverse and complex chemistries of any element in the periodic table. Since its discovery in 1940, scientists have synthesized and studied many different types ...

Life Learned To Breathe Oxygen Hundreds of Millions of Years Earlier Than Scientists Thought

Oxygen is everywhere on Earth today. But that hasn’t always been the case. Scientists think oxygen only became a lasting part ...