When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

Improving the capacitance of supercapacitors requires gaining control over ion behavior inside carbon nanopores. This study ...

This is the last entry — at least for this year — in my series on batteries. Batteries are the missing link to total off-grid ...

Researchers discover that embedding iridium atoms inside catalyst crystals instead of on the surface dramatically improves ...

A precise synthesis tunes platinum skin thickness on PtCu nanospheres and shows two atomic layers give the best oxygen ...

Through a recent notice, the Undergraduate Medical Education Board (UGMEB) of the National Medical Commission (NMC) has ...

Physicists have taken a gemstone better known for engagement rings and turned it into a laboratory for one of the strangest ...

Around 5,000 years ago, people in what is now Iran began turning dull stone into shining metal. By heating copper ore until ...

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

Quantum mechanics is weird. When you think you have reached the bottom of its weirdness, you always discover a new ...