Chemistry

Despite the overwhelming abundance of water on the planet and in our lives, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery. In all, water exhibits 66 known anomalies, including a strangely…

The human eye lens consists of a highly concentrated mix of several proteins. Protective proteins keep them from aggregating and clumping. If this protection fails, the lens blurs and the patient…

Now we can contain whales in our starships!(sorry for just pasting and running, really busy...) "Scientists claim to have created a form of aluminum that's nearly transparent to extreme ultraviolet…

The phenomenon of Brownian motion (after botanist Robert Brown, who discovered it 1828) was described by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he published his statistical molecular theory of liquids.…

A team of scientists say they have discovered a method for attaching molecules to semiconducting silicon that may help manufacturers end-run the current limits of Moore's Law in the quest to make…

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) discovered that the Earth orbits the Sun, thus paving the way for our modern view of the world.  It took a few hundred years for religion to apologize for the…

Researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly lubricating grease based on ricin oil and cellulose derivatives, according to the journal Green Chemistry. Bonus: the new formula does not…

A new National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) assay using a “glow or no glow” technique may soon help the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) defend the nation against a spectrum…

Stress and strain research got a boost thanks to research from NIST, where scientists have recently found evidence of an important similarity between the behavior of polycrystalline materials, like…

The likes of Snoop Doggy Dawg are joining the ubiquitous periodic table. Super-heavy element 112 is poised to join the ranks more than a decade after its discovery by German scientists.…