Chemistry

From schools of fish and flocks of birds to microscopic particles that assemble, scatter, and move as though they were...

Fibrous membranes could soon become far more effective at collecting water from fog, separating oil from water, and moving moisture...

Supercontinuum light sources are often described as “white lasers” because they produce an extraordinarily broad, continuous spectrum containing many colors...

Scientists have observed a form of organization in matter that looks less like a conventional crystal and more like an...

Neural activity unfolds in three dimensions and at extraordinary speed. Electrical signals can travel through brain circuits on millisecond-to-microsecond timescales,...

Three-dimensional communication may be moving closer to reality after researchers in South Korea demonstrated a holographic telepresence system that captures...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V has released its twentieth public data release, opening access to more than two million...

The Milky Way may look like a quiet ribbon of light across the night sky, but its star-forming regions are...

The Arctic is warming faster than the global average, and Siberia is emerging as one of the most important—and least...

A blazar located about 1.5 billion light-years away has challenged one of astronomy’s most widely used explanations for how these...