Top tips from David Boyce and his class, who have cultivated a 3kg single copper sulfate crystal A classic school experiment involves growing copper sulfate crystals. Allowing water to slowly ...

From start to finish, the bubble freezing process is kid-friendly. In a small container, stir together a cup of warm water, 2 ...

CRESST is an experiment designed for light WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles), which are dark matter particles. The detection principle is based on a behavior familiar from billiard: when a ...

Adjusting the size and chemistry of nanocrystals within an ultrathin surface can speed up light-driven chemical reactions, ...

When an electron travels through a polar crystalline solid, its negative charge attracts the positively charged atomic cores, causing the surrounding crystal lattice to deform. The electron and ...

The Kiel University scientist discusses how advanced materials processing is shaping medical manufacturing and improving drug performance.

Most people have the Epstein-Barr (EBV) virus. Sometimes people are unaware of this virus in their body; it settles into immune cells and remains for the duration.

This study reports an important and novel finding that TENT5A, an enzyme involved in fine-tuning poly(A) tail length on selected mRNAs, is required for proper enamel mineralization in mice. The ...

The history of science is never neutral. How Ukrainian identity in physics was erased over decades and why the «Soviet school» is not the same as the «Russian school.» We are bringing the names of ...

Scottsdale, Arizona still has old-timey steakhouses where ribeyes arrive sizzling, the rooms feel timeless, and locals never ...

Scientists at Microsoft Research in the United States have demonstrated a system called Silica for writing and reading information in ordinary pieces of glass which can store two million books’ worth ...