NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...

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Metamaterials are materials that possess exotic properties, and the metamaterial assembled at the École Polytechnique ...

Argonne scientists have unveiled new methods for controlling material properties. The breakthrough enables researchers to ...

To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an ...

A major breakthrough in liquid catalysis is transforming how essential products are made, making the chemical manufacturing ...

Researchers have achieved orbital hybridization in graphene-based quantum dots for the first time. This breakthrough provides ...

So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that ...

Fusion reactions are the same source that power stars -- where hydrogen atoms smash and fuse together into helium creating a massive blast of energy.