Chemistry AND Physics

Credit: Graphic by Jason Drees for the Biodesign Institute. Researchers hope to develop vaccines, therapeutics and new diagnostic tests for...

New research highlights the robust presence of antibiotic stewardship practices in most Veterans Administration-affiliated facilities, manifested in both formal and...

Credit: University of Bath Researchers at the University of Bath, United Kingdom have created a new kind of laser capable...

Credit: Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore A team of scientists from Singapore and France has revealed the underlying mechanism...

BOSTON - A new study demonstrates that pediatric patients with asthma who left the hospital with their prescription medications made...

Amelia Trainer can recite the Seamus Heaney poem, “Scaffolding,” by memory. It starts: Masons, when they start upon a building,...

Theoretical physicists at MIT recently reported a quantum computer design featuring an array of superconducting islands on the surface of...

Electrical resistance is a simple concept: Rather like friction slowing down an object rolling on a surface, resistance slows the...

Ling Lu, a postdoc in the Department of Physics, had an idea for a photonic crystal that theoretically could capture...

Eleven MIT researchers from eight School of Science and School of Engineering departments are among the 126 American and Canadian...

MADISON -- Dave Pagliarini, director of metabolism at the Morgridge Institute for Research and associate professor of biochemistry at the...

Amsterdam, NL, Feb. 22, 2016 - Researchers present the first clinical study that provides evidence that an extended-release sialic acid...

The majority of disease-causing bacteria in the body are rendered harmless by the protective effects of the immune system. Those...

Short-term exposure to engineered nanoparticles used in semiconductor manufacturing poses little risk to people or the environment, according to a...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida State University researchers are working on new approaches to deciphering genetic data that may lead to...

Topological insulators appeared to be rather well-understood from theory until now. The electrons that can only occupy "allowed" quantum states...

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in passing an antibody through the blood-brain barrier to act as a tracer...

Researchers at RMIT University and the University of Adelaide have joined forces to create a stretchable nano-scale device to manipulate...

Huntsville, TX (2/19/16) -- Synthetic cathinones are derived from cathinone which is present in the khat plant. These recreational drugs...

Emulsions, the stabilized mixtures of oil and water are the basis of many food and personal care products such as...