Chemistry

Credit: Included in photo When Hennig Brandt discovered the element phosphorus in 1669, it was a mistake. He was really...

Sensor is poised to improve landmine detection and non-destructive testingCredit: V. Aranchuk, Univ. Mississippi WASHINGTON -- Detecting landmines can be...

Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab The word "particle accelerator" may bring to mind massive underground experiments at laboratories exploring the mysteries...

Researchers use light to control high-speed chemical reactions in a new wayCredit: © 2019 Kato et al. Many natural and...

Credit: DOE's Jefferson Lab For more than 30 years, Volker Burkert has made his home in the Commonwealth of Virginia...

Credit: ESO/VMC Survey The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is one of our nearest galactic neighbors, at only 163 000...

Credit: Gemini Observatory/NSF/AURA The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully imaged by the Gemini Observatory in...

Made from carbon nanotubes, the new coating is 10 times darker than other very black materialsCredit: R. Capanna, A. Berlato,...

The material developed at University of Bath allows for incredibly sensitive detection of the direction molecules twistCredit: Ventsislav Valev and...

Second-lowest September minimum since observations beganCredit: Graphic: meereisportal.de The sea-ice extent in the Arctic is nearing its annual minimum at...

Credit: Ryoichi Teruyama, LSU Oxytocin is widely referred to as the love hormone and plays an important role in the...

Motility is an essential property of many cell types, and is driven by molecular motors. A Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU)in M has...

Credit: (Image: University of Basel, Biozentrum) After nerve injury, the protein complex mTORC1 takes over an important function in skeletal...

Researchers investigate infection dynamics in tissue-like three-dimensional cell culturesCredit: Oliver Fackler / Frederik Graw The spread of pathogens like the...

New technique could catch insect infestation in individual trees at early stagesCredit: HAWK University of Applied Science and Arts WASHINGTON...

Researchers try a trick for complete 3D analysis of submicron crystalsCredit: © Tim Grüne The 3D analysis of crystal structures...

Human artificial chromosomes (HACs) could be useful tools for both understanding how mammalian chromosomes function and creating synthetic biological systems,...

Study published in Cell reveals activity of nociceptin neuronsCredit: Max Hunter What happens when we give up? Inside the brain,...

Credit: Virginia Tech The large, error-correcting quantum computers envisioned today could be decades away, yet experts are vigorously trying to...

A low-cost, high-performance battery chemistry developed by University of Colorado Boulder researchers could one day lead to scalable grid-level storage...