Some solid materials can cool down or heat up when pressure is applied or released. This behavior enables cooling and heating ...

Tiny particles bounce light around in a unique way, a property that researchers are using to detect pollutants in water and soil samples.

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...

Researchers at Northwestern University have built a solid-state electrolyzer that converts carbon monoxide from plastic waste ...

Most polymers don’t mix—and that’s the point. Polymer alloys succeed by engineering the interface: use thermodynamics to predict separation, processing to sculpt morphology, and compatibilizers to ...

A large share of medicines developed today may never reach patients for a surprisingly simple reason: they cannot dissolve well enough in water. For most treatments, the oral route remains the gold ...

The Committee on Solid Earth Geophysics serves as the focal point for community discussion and community-agency interaction on issues related to the structure, dynamics, and evolution of the Earth.

New ultrasound technology developed at Johns Hopkins can distinguish fluid from solid breast masses with near perfect accuracy, an advance that could save patients, especially those with dense breast ...

The energy-efficient extraction of oxygen directly from air remains a significant technological challenge. Anion-exchange membranes (AEMs) play a critical role in electrochemical systems due to their ...

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...