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Humidity is one of those deceptively simple physical quantities that turns out to be extraordinarily difficult to measure well. Anyone...

Polymeric heart valves have long promised the best of both worlds in prosthetic cardiology: the durability of mechanical valves and...

A quiet revolution in computational materials science is unfolding at Argonne National Laboratory, where researchers have rebuilt one of the...

A team of Romanian researchers has developed a disposable, stamp-sized electrochemical platform capable of distinguishing between the two mirror-image forms...

Materials that glow under stress have long been a dream for engineers who worry about the silent failure of plastics,...

In a discovery that could reshape one of the most vigorous debates in modern condensed matter physics, researchers at the...

In the race to build better supercapacitors, one of the most decisive factors is not the chemical identity of an...

Microwave hyperthermia—the controlled heating of tumors to temperatures that weaken or kill cancer cells—has long promised a non-invasive alternative to...

Biodegradable plastics were supposed to be agriculture's answer to the microplastic problem, but a new study reveals that the very...