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When light passes through materials, it typically changes direction and bends in predictable ways. This change in direction, known as refraction, is caused by a change in the speed of light as it ...
At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...
Photoionization mass spectrometry has transformed analytical chemistry, enabling complex chemical analysis and celebrating a ...
Minerals form the building blocks of almost everything on Earth. They are made up of crystals—regular, repeating atomic ...
In 1869, Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher isolated a mysterious substance from cell nuclei—an overlooked finding that would ...
The rumored new iPhone design is expected to be vastly different from what we've seen so far, with a change as drastic as the ...
As much as 45 oceans’ worth of hydrogen may be in Earth’s core, scientists reported, suggesting most of Earth’s water was ...
A study using EBSD and TEM imaging found that “b” dislocations in olivine occur in roughly 17% of analyzed crystals. These ...
Earth's core contains nine to 45 times more hydrogen than the planet's oceans do, according to a new study that could settle a debate about when and how hydrogen was delivered to Earth.
In 1953, Watson and Crick announced the double-helix structure of DNA and later won the Nobel Prize. But a crucial clue came from Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray diffraction work at King’s College ...
It may sound like an oxymoron, but this massive nanoparticle made up of 7,000 sodium atoms is the largest to exhibit such ...