Defecation is commonly treated as a universal feature of animal life, a visible outcome of digestion and metabolic turnover.

For most people, the magnifying-glass-shaped structure at Huairou Science City in Beijing is a high-end but inaccessible ...

Using a STEM-in-SEM conversion holder, we can convert a scanning electron microscope into a scanning transmission microscope.

Sulfur, long feared as a "poison" that shuts down precious metal catalysts, can actually help them work better when ...

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.

Study uncovers key insights about how a new class of antiviral drugs works. Cryo-EM images showed the drugs bound to herpes simplex virus (HSV) protein at nearly atomic detail, while optical tweezers ...

In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

This corralled supercooled liquid relies on the surprising property that some atoms in a liquid remain stationary regardless ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

Archaeologists uncover a 3,000-year-old workshop in Iraq, revealing how Iron Age communities crafted ceramics and organized production.

Scientists say their new insights into how a key brain protein works could help resolve a long-standing question in molecular ...