Forms of germ theory denial have been advocated by the United States secretary of health.

Scientific discovery is often portrayed as the result of long hours alone in a lab, but true science is inherently collaborative. The most robust experimental processes are developed through ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) At the scale of atoms, a cut edge is not just a boundary. It is a line of unsettled chemistry, where atoms that once had stable neighbors do not simply wait in place but may now ...

Gold nanoparticles, which are about one-thousandth the width of a human hair, can convert light they receive from a laser ...

Eighty years after the world's first nuclear explosion, scientists found two rare crystal structures inside a fragment of ...

Researchers discover that rare axo-axonic synapses form a decentralized network of "broker" neurons to drive split-second fly ...

All cells, whether big or small, short or long, rely on proteins to function properly. In most cells, transporting these ...

MIT researchers reprogram material by moving entire column of atoms using electron beam and sophisticated algorithms.

Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal ...

Against expert advice, people are using new and unpredictable synthetic drugs to experiment on themselves in hopes of becoming free of addiction. Against expert advice, people are using new and ...

A long-standing mystery in materials science is beginning to unravel as researchers directly probe the hidden atomic complexity of relaxor ferroelectrics.

In a basement lab in Brandeis' Rosenstiel building, a refrigerator-sized microscope dominates a small, windowless room. On its surface, it looks like a featureless white box. Yet inside, it's a study ...