Researchers developed a transparent smart contact lens that uses gold nanoparticle-embedded PEDOT:PSS nanowires to improve ...

Energy storage usually brings to mind batteries, capacitors, tanks of hydrogen, or maybe some giant gravity system hauling ...

The agricultural economy was the backbone of wealth in ancient Greece. Food brought people together, whether in smaller groups at a wine-drinking symposium or the entire community in a sacrificial ...

The world’s most expensive infrared spectrometer – the James Webb Space Telescope – is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet chemistry. James Mitchell Crow looks to the skies A long time ago in a galaxy ...

Chemists at the University of Geneva and University of Pisa have crafted a novel family of chiral molecules whose mirror-image “handedness” remains rock-solid for tens of thousands of years. By ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) and high-speed AFM allow direct observation of biomolecular structures and their functional dynamics. Based on scanning the molecular surface of a sample deposited on a ...

Proxygen has financed itself solely off grants and upfront cash accrued in licensing deals like the one with Merck & Co. (Ralf Liebhold/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Proxygen’s molecular glue ambitions ...

The James Webb Space Telescope only captures infrared light, but imaging developers can convert the invisible into something both beautiful and scientifically accurate. When that transfer is complete ...

School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 70 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637457, Singapore School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological ...

At the core of just about every plant, algae, and blob of green pond scum on Earth sits a molecular engine for harvesting sunlight. Its only emissions are oxygen – a gas we can all be incredibly ...

The U937 cell culture is a pro-monocytic, human histiocytic lymphoma cell line. These monocytes can differentiate into either macrophages or dendritic cells (antigen-presenting cells) depending on the ...

Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, 9712 CP, Groningen, The Netherlands MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7522 NB, Enschede, The Netherlands ...