Metasurfaces have transformed the way scientists manipulate light, but most existing devices still operate under a fundamental constraint: they primarily...

Gas molecules inside porous materials have long been treated as disordered guests, filling microscopic cavities according to averaged properties such...

Finnish researchers have developed living nanocellulose films that can produce ethylene for more than four months, offering a possible new...

Lithium–sulfur batteries have long been regarded as one of the most promising alternatives to today’s lithium-ion technology. Sulfur is abundant,...

Skyrmions—tiny magnetic vortices that can be moved by electric currents—have taken a major step toward becoming practical components in future...

For decades, the fastest route to a new medicine, advanced material, or industrial chemical has often depended on a reaction...

A University of Waterloo research team is using artificial intelligence, data science and advanced mathematics to reveal how fires evolve...

Kanazawa University researchers have developed a light-powered method that selectively breaks strong carbon–hydrogen bonds while leaving weaker carbon–silicon bonds intact—an...

A tiny amount of one of the rarest substances on Earth has revealed a striking secret about the heaviest elements....

Rigoberto “Gobet” Advincula, a Governor’s Chair Professor jointly appointed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and...