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Glowing crystals can detect, cleanse contaminated drinking water

Tiny, glowing crystals designed to detect and capture heavy-metal toxins such as lead and mercury could prove to be a powerful new tool...

Nov 30, 20164 min read

A new study is the first to show that living organisms can be persuaded to make silicon-carbon bonds--something only chemists had done...

Nov 25, 20164 min read

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have fabricated the first semiconductor-free, optically-controlled microelectronic...

Nov 8, 20162 min read

Inspired by proteins that can recognize dangerous microbes and debris, then engulf such material to get rid of it, polymer scientists led...

Nov 3, 20162 min read

Scientists from the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICP RAS) and the Moscow Institute of...

Nov 3, 20162 min read

If you drop some water on your new Teflon pan, drops can't hold firmly anywhere. The pan does not get wet but droplet rebounds in the...

Oct 31, 20162 min read