Nuclear fusion powers the stars and could be used to supply clean energy on Earth. A nuclear fusion plant would produce ten times more energ...

In 1970, Japanese professor Eiji Osawa predicted the existence of buckyballs. In 1985, Buckminster Fullerenes were first observed in the lab...

Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide are currently used for sunscreens because they absorb and scatter light. University of Tennessee, Knoxville,...

Chemists from New York University and St. Petersburg State University have been observing the growth of crystals of hippuric acid, a deriva...

In an electrical conductor, negatively charged electrons can hop between atoms and move freely in their interior or on the surface. These fr...

For a long time scientists have believed that a chicken egg shell protein called ovocledidin-17 (OC-17) played a part in the formation of eg...

The Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) delivers an intense pulse of X-rays designed to image atoms and molecules. When the LCLS X-rays are t...