Protein droplets serve important biological functions within cells, but in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, these ...
Our Wabi Sabi Life on MSN
If you notice ice crystals on frozen food, here's what it really means
You pull a bag of chicken breasts out of the freezer, and it looks like a tiny snowstorm happened inside the packaging. Ice ...
Compleximers”—materials that can be molded like window glass but that resist impacts like plastic does—shouldn’t exist, ...
Hundreds of years ago, lead musket balls tore across European battlefields, littering the ground with toxic materials. Today, a team of scientists in Germany has scavenged a pile of this deeply ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN
Squishy photonic switches promise fast low power logic
A drop of liquid crystal turns a polymer structure into an all-optical basis for logic ...
For decades scientists have thought, based on experimental observations, that the lower a glassy material’s melting rate, the ...
US engineers develop soft robots that move without motors using liquid crystal elastomers and embedded electronics.
From crystallographers' beards to billion-dollar lawsuits, the phenomenon of disappearing polymorphs has puzzled chemists for decades. Now researchers are finally unravelling the science behind why st ...
Researchers generated stable vortex light in its lowest-energy state using liquid crystal traps and optical confinement.
From cars and planes to plastics and drugs, our society depends on "black gold." Hence, why the Iran war is causing such ...
With their ability to shapeshift and manipulate delicate objects, soft robots could work as medical implants, deliver drugs ...
Hundreds of millions of miles away from Earth, the landscape of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, bears a striking resemblance to ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results