Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Trophies long coveted by the UConn men’s hockey program are on the horizon. The Huskies, who play in Friday, are well ...

Cells experience many different types of stress, such as starvation or stress caused by too much salt or too high a temperature. Insulin signals respond to such stress signals by sending the protein ...

The ocean has always looked like a blank blue expanse on most maps, yet beneath that surface lies a layered, living ...

Miskin’s team at Penn provided the propulsion system. The robots work in liquid environments and move by generating a tiny ...

Flexoelectricity, which can transform mechanical deformation into electrical signals, could provide enough power to fire ...

Cell division is an essential process for all life on earth, yet the exact mechanisms by which cells divide during early ...

Liquids and solutions may look simple, but on the molecular scale they are constantly shifting and reorganizing. When sugar dissolves in water, each sugar molecule quickly becomes surrounded by fast ...