science
Engineers demonstrate superstrong, reversible adhesive that works like snail slime (Update)
If you've ever pressed a picture-hanging strip onto the wall only to realize it's slightly off-center, you know the disappointment behind adhesion as we...
Wheat myth debunked by a major new study
The myth that modern wheat varieties are more heavily reliant on pesticides and fertilisers is debunked by new research published in Nature Plants today.
Lead author on...
Innovative technique uses sensory nanoparticles to detect disease
Investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital are taking advantage of a unique phenomenon of nanoparticles to develop a test for early detection of different...
Tiny probe that senses deep in the lung set to shed...
A hair-sized probe that can measure key indicators of tissue damage deep in the lung has been developed by scientists.
The new technology could pave the way...
A simple formula that could be useful for air purification, space...
When a raindrop falls through a thundercloud, it is subject to strong electric fields that pull and tug on the droplet, like a soap...
Chemists’ breakthrough in synthesis advances a potent anti-cancer agent
It's a feat three decades in the making: Harvard University chemists have achieved what a new paper calls a "landmark in drug discovery" with...
The hidden structure of the periodic system
The periodic table of elements that most chemistry books depict is only one special case. This tabular overview of the chemical elements, which goes...
Electron (or ‘hole’) pairs may survive effort to kill superconductivity
Scientists seeking to understand the mechanism underlying superconductivity in "stripe-ordered" cuprates—copper-oxide materials with alternating areas of electric charge and magnetism—discovered an unusual metallic state...
Discovery of light-induced ferroelectricity in strontium titanate
Light can be used not only to measure materials' properties, but also to change them. Especially interesting are those cases in which the function...
Revealing ‘hidden’ phases of matter through the power of light
Most people think of water as existing in only one of three phases: Solid ice, liquid water, or gas vapor. But matter can exist...
Jupiter-like exoplanets found in sweet spot in most planetary systems
As planets form in the swirling gas and dust around young stars, there seems to be a sweet spot where most of the large,...
