Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He ...

The material melts ice as fast or faster than plain salt does, Choi says, while lasting longer and thereby reducing the total ...

Long before humans evolved, a small eel shaped creature swimming in ancient seas carried eyes that look strikingly familiar.

Scientists from UK have used a synchrotron in USA to investigate ancient vertebrate fossils. The remains revealed surprisingly complex eyes.

Red blood cells must be flexible to squeeze through tiny capillaries to deliver oxygen. Chemists have now discovered the secret of this flexibility: a 2-D triangular mesh, like a geodesic dome, ...

Charlotte's downtown holds a treasure that transforms ordinary weekends into extraordinary adventures of discovery and wonder ...

For many decades, the method to obtain atomic-level descriptions of chemical compounds and materials—be it a drug, a catalyst ...

Researchers synthesized weird molecules that exist in three dimensions, breaking Bredt's rule and helping to develop future ...

When water and ions move together through channels only a nanometer wide, they behave in unusual ways. In these tight spaces, water molecules line up in single file. This forces ions to shed some of ...

Why going the extra mile might make you feel good — plus, how extreme weather events could increase the burden of malaria in ...

Bone fractures usually heal efficiently, but in some patients this process fails, causing nonunion. A recent study identifies ...