Superconductors, materials that conduct electricity with zero electrical resistance at specific temperature ranges, have proved very promising for the development of quantum computers and other ...

Stephen King’s The Mist got a memorable Frank Darabont adaptation in 2007. Nearly two decades later, the premise feels oddly prescient — but in a much smaller and far less terrifying way. Fog itself ...

Concrete, although the most common building material in the world, is brittle and can easily crack under tension.

According to conventional wisdom, the compound microscope was invented at the beginning of the seventeenth century and made possible the immediate discovery of cells. This is nonsense. The textbook ...

Cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) can help scientists determine the three-dimensional structure of proteins in unprecedented detail. Jacques Dubochet, former group leader at EMBL, shared the 2017 ...

Gold’s pristine shine may depend on a hidden atomic rearrangement that makes oxygen reactions far harder, helping explain its ...

A home machinist and microscopy enthusiast has documented a detailed technical conversion of a scanning electron microscope (SEM) into a transmission electron microscope (TEM), demonstrating that ...

A team of researchers at the University of Warwick and Monash University has solved a puzzle that has stumped drug developers ...

Today:Early fog in the far southwest clears quickly. Most areas stay dry with sunshine and variable cloud, though northern and northeastern regions may see isolated showers. Light winds overall, ...

For years, companies have injected carbon dioxide into concrete to trap emissions and improve early performance. The construction industry embraced the approach even though researchers could not fully ...

Senegenin is the main bioactive ingredient isolated from the dried roots of Polygala tenuifolia Willd. In recent years, senegenin has been proved to possess a variety of pharmacological activities, ...

South African employers are facing a major payroll compliance crackdown as SARS ramps up audits, data-driven enforcement, and scrutiny of fringe benefits, travel allowances, fuel cards and other ...