Placing materials under extremely strong magnetic fields can give rise to unusual and fascinating physical phenomena or ...

Scientists find that natural iron minerals can speed up the breakdown of toxic plastic additives in the environment.

Crystal structure prediction (CSP) of organic molecules is a critical task, especially in pharmaceuticals and materials science. However, conventional methods are computationally intensive and ...

A quick, purification-free method was developed by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo, to capture the detailed 3D structures of flexible sugar molecules. By growing crystals of galectin-10 ...

Cloud seeding is in the news these days. Recently, an attempt to induce artificial rain, i.e., cloud seeding, was ...

But recently-graduated RPI materials science Ph.D. student Ru Jia and her lab fellows grew crystals through carbon buffer ...

Talc reveals a phase of superhydration in cold subduction, demonstrating that the ocean sends more water to the depths of the Earth.

Crystal polymorphism is critically important in the fields of pharmaceuticals and materials science. For instance, a metastable polymorph of an active pharmaceutical ingredient may benefit from ...

His decoding of the blueprint for life with Francis H.C. Crick made him one of the most important scientists of the 20th ...

James Watson’s work on the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA led to a revolution in biology and genetics ...