A printable polymer that traps water molecules flips humidity from a performance-killer into a performance-booster for motion ...

Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and ...

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Protein droplets serve important biological functions within cells, but in neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's, these ...

For many years, designing synthetic polymer systems has been inspired by the hierarchical self-assembly of folded proteins ...

Northwestern University chemists have discovered a new way to turn natural gas into liquid fuel—and it's lightning in a ...

In this valuable study, the authors develop new approaches to investigate mRNA imprinting, a phenomenon in which RNA-protein complexes form in the nucleus to influence the fate of transcripts in the ...

HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein (Env), a gp120–gp41 trimer, undergoes coordinated conformational changes that drive membrane fusion and allow immune evasion by transiently concealing ...

A sample from Bennu reveals that water once flowed through hidden channels, preserving key compounds from the early days of ...