Think you know what rare means? Try finding something that exists for exactly 22 minutes before it vanishes. Or a mineral with only one specimen in the entire world. Earth’s been experimenting for ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover accidentally split open a rock on Mars on May 30, 2024, exposing bright yellow crystals that turned out to be pure elemental sulfur, a material never before identified on the ...

The 2025 Maryland ACS award, presented on Feb. 4 at the Levering Hall, centered on Toscano’s work with  “fundamental organic ...

Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have created a chip-scale device that can dynamically control the "handedness" of light as it passes ...

BEIJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled a high-resolution atlas detailing the global distribution of lunar surface chemistry, a significant advance that fills a critical data gap in the ...

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist creates a machine capable of generating up to 1,000 liters of water per day from the air.

No "sticky ends"? No problem. A new study by NYU chemists finds that DNA tiles can assemble into 3D structures without the ...

NYU researchers have found a way to use light to control how microscopic particles assemble into crystals, effectively ...

Chemists are exploring a new method for designing materials, and it’s called shape-directed self-assembly. A research team at Seoul National University created saddle-shaped molecules that stacked ...

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