Nguyen and her team solved this by designing a version of their molecule that remains liquid at room temperature. It requires ...

When Katharine Burr Blodgett discovered nonreflecting glass, the General Electric Company’s public relations machine made her a star ...

In industrial plants around the world, tiny bubbles cause big problems. Bubbles clog filters, disrupt chemical reactions, reduce throughput during biomanufacturing, and can even cause overheating in ...

It’s easy to lose ourselves when our environments become normal to us. In comfort, we aren’t challenged. There is a point where you have to leave the water, leave home and go back to your ...

Biomolecular condensates were long believed to be simple liquid blobs inside cells. Researchers have now uncovered that some are actually supported by fine protein filaments forming an internal ...

Icy moons circling the outer planets may be far more dynamic—and explosive—than they appear. New research suggests that when ...

Liquid nitrogen isn’t exactly an everyday material, but it’s acquired conveniently enough to be used in extreme overclocking experiments, classroom demonstrations, chemistry and physics ...

Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C.

Scientists say it's possible to use tiny ripples in space and time, or gravitational waves, to measure the rate at which our ...

Water droplets have a unique ability: They can leap from a surface on their own. This can happen for a variety of reasons, ...

New research sheds light on what drives reddish water to emerge from underground to pour onto the Taylor Glacier.

NASA astronaut [Don Pettit] shared a short video from an experiment he performed on the ISS back in 2012, demonstrating the effects of sound waves on water in space. Specifically, seeing what happens ...