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Results would be conveniently transmitted to your smartphone.
The stakes have never been so tiny.
This U.S. flag is only a couple nanometers wide or thousands of times thinner than a human hair.
It's the first frog known to be fluorescent.
A new solution proposed by researchers in Germany and Spain is so elegant and effective that it might revolutionise water purification.
A key molecule in tire production that's typically sourced from petroleum was made for the first time using biomass.
This is molecular surgery.
This could be a game changer for storing renewable energy like wind or solar.
Along with oxygen, it set the stage for life as we know it.
Not so noble after all.
The process takes 30 minutes and is 10 times faster than previous methods.
It was made from strands made of over 190 atoms coiled around a triple loop which crosses itself eight times.
This molecule doesn't play by the rules.
In January, four new elements were introduced to the periodic table, but they didn't have a name. Now, they will be officially added to the periodic table, with proper names.
And its discovery happened by accident, too.
This really is the future.
Tiny gears to start a huge revolution.
Finally!
The best of both worlds
Researchers went full blown MacGyver with this nanotech water purifier.
Of course, it could just be The Government covering up. Spooky stuff.
Who needs curtains when you can flip a switch and insta-magically change your windows' opacity.
Someone is celebrating St. Patrick's early this year.
Blacking out from alcohol is a bit more complicated than you might think.
Human trials for the vaccine formulation will begin after the current pre-clinical studies are completed.
But maybe our neighbour wasn't always so red-faced after all.
We just bought some more time.
Not only does it look gorgeous, but it also has many remarkable properties that could transform the way artists work.
A new study found there are some added benefits to keeping the coffee in the fridge, which not even the best baristas know.
Thousands of light years away, a two-handed molecule might help us unravel the secrets of life.
Warning: Don't try this at home!
Using energy from the sun, researchers converted seawater into hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) -- a fuel that can be used in fuel cells, instead of elemental hydrogen.
Ava Winery, a start-up based in San Francisco, wants to let you enjoy the best of wines for a fraction of their current cost. To this end, they'll bypass the costly growing and fermentation processes; in fact, they won't use grapes at all. Their wines will be synthetically produced, by combining aromatic compounds with ethanol.
By analyzing telltale chemical signs which marked the environment, like led isotopes, a team of researchers tracked the water quality following the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.
If you like burgers - and let's face it, you do - then we have some good news and some bad news. The good news is that most of the burgers in America are OK - a molecular analysis showed that there is nothing wrong in terms of nutritional content and ingredients. But a small minority was not OK.
The unlikely ally is silk.
It can be quite difficult to visualize chemical reactions in real life, but modern science is here to help us once again
“How do you do very high-level science or engineering with very little?” Asks Martin Thuo, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State. With a little help from science and lots of innovation, Thuo and colleagues found an elegant solution to a complex problem.
The closest we've come to natural muscles is a novel elastomer developed at Stanford University, Palo Alto that can stretch 45 times its length and return to its original size. It's also self-healing.
Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a way to reliably produce batteries that are very cheap, but can store a lot of energy.
Women who use certain sunscreens might be at risk of infertility, as scientists found 45 percent of the tested products contained chemicals that mess with the function of sperm.
Tired of laundry day? Pioneering nano research into self-cleaning textiles could soon make cleaning your clothes as easy as hanging them out on a sunny day.
Los Alamos is always blowing stuff up. The Lab burst into the public consciousness 70 years ago with the biggest explosion known to humanity—the world’s first atomic bomb. Since then, Los Alamos has continued to lead the nation in explosives science and engineering. Now, some of the researchers working there went to answer questions on […]
There's a tune to oxygen, carbon and any other element from the periodic table.
There are over 5,000 mineral species identified by scientists thus far, but fewer than 100 make up the entire planet's crust. The rest are so rare, short lived and notoriously difficult to replicate that you'd barely know they're here. Not understating the importance of such minerals -- which could offer clues on how the planet formed, but also lead to new industrial applications -- researchers from the United States cataloged the 2,500 rarest minerals on the planet.
In a study published in the January 19, 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), scientists at Tsinghua University in China confirmed that something very unusual is happening inside extremely heavy atoms, causing them to deviate from their expect chemical behavior predicted by their place on the Periodic Table of Elements.
Crash boom bang! Our planet and another protoplanet may have collided head-on in their early history.
It may be possible to observe the presence of an advanced alien civilization by the effects produced if that civilization were to self-destruct through nuclear war, biological warfare, nanotechnological annihilation, or stellar pollution. Each case would generate unique detectable signs that could be identified by earth-based telescopes.
Using a special type of microscopy, researchers triggered and visualized a chemical reaction at atomic level.
