Polaron has secured $8 million in new funding as it works to redefine how advanced materials are understood, designed, and manufactured. The London-based startup is building what it describes as an ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth's surface almost 3000 million years ago.

Researchers from the labs of Professors Vinayak Dravid and Omar Farha developed a high-resolution approach to map ...

By combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a ...

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

Researchers at Stanford University have developed a new mathematical model that could improve the evaluation of potential storage sites for nuclear waste and carbon dioxide. The approach provides a ...

Glass is a material distinguished by its amorphous or non-crystalline microscopic structure. 1 Glasses are typically transparent to visible light, and many are valued for their chemical inertness and ...

Tooth enamel, the hardest substance in the human body, may be at risk of gradual and permanent wear from chewing vegetables. While plant-based foods are an essential part of a healthy diet, as they ...

The universe's invisible dark matter might swirl into spinning clumps laced with countless tiny vortices, new theoretical work suggests. The findings, published May 30 in the journal Physical Review D ...

When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new tuberculosis drug in over 40 years. Bedaquiline quickly became the key drug in all standard drug-resistant tuberculosis ...