Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the first ...

When Judy Cardell was finishing graduate school at MIT, her goal was to work for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. She landed a job there, only to discover it wasn’t the right fit after all, ...

It may sound incredible, but many scientists believe that the total energy of the universe is zero. Hence, no energy needed to be “created” when the universe came into existence. While it seems ...