Have you ever seen a hibiscus flower? Although its petals have a range of colors, what makes the trumpet-shaped flower more ...

The kidneys are vital organs that sustain life by filtering the blood and producing urine. This filtration process takes ...

Many technological applications, such as sensors and batteries, greatly rely on electrochemical reactions. Improving these technologies depends on understanding how electrochemical reactions work.

For the first time, researchers have shown that self-assembled phosphorus chains can host genuinely one-dimensional electron ...

A tiny algae recently discovered in India is helping to reconstruct how the oceans moved millions of years ago.

Scientists have developed a new approach to formulating mineral sunscreen that could prevent it from leaving a white cast on ...

Today we are machining some metal inside the scanning electron microscope! By creating a custom fixture, we can manually advance a carbide cutter and cut metal inside the vacuum chamber of my SEM.

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According to the researchers, dark teeth alone are not enough to prove intentional cosmetic treatment. Teeth can turn brown ...

Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab revealing life’s early chemical origins ” is published in The Brighter ...

An international team of researchers has developed a breakthrough method for producing MXenes—an important family of ...

Imagine cutting a strand of hair into one hundred thousand tiny slices. Now imagine something even smaller than one of those slices. That is the scale of nanote ...