New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

For example, the atomic number of chlorine is 17. Every chlorine atom has 17 protons and 17 electrons. It has 17 positive charges and 17 negative charges, meaning that it is neutral overall. Atoms of ...

Apply insecticides, especially grub control, to your lawn. Check with your local university co-op extension service (find yours here) to learn the right time to do it in your area. Moles may go ...

Nobel Prize in Physics is a tribute to the scientists who first discovered quantum behaviors in a macroscopic electrical ...

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...

The prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of an architecture that some ...

When high-energy radiation interacts with water in living organisms, it generates particles and slow-moving electrons that ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

Being able to spot the difference between the damage caused by moles and voles is key when trying to banish these pets from your lawn and garden.

Imagine industrial processes that make materials or chemical compounds faster, cheaper, and with fewer steps than ever before ...

Scientists report that the naked mole rat’s age-defying superpower likely relates to a protein called cGAS (or cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate synthase), which plays a role in ...