Using samples collected by the Chinese Chang’e 5 mission, researchers have discovered a new way to release water from lunar ...

Improved bacterial cellulose could help create tougher, greener materials for things we use every day. As plastic waste ...

How a DNA 3D printer could revolutionize nanochip design, enabling optical computing, cheaper microchips, and eco-friendly fabrication.

Columbia University engineers 3D print self-assembling DNA - using biomolecular code to produce nanoscale devices at scale.

When the Empire State Building was constructed, its 102 stories rose above midtown one piece at a time, with each individual ...

Imagine if you could "print" a tiny skyscraper using DNA instead of steel. That’s what researchers at Columbia and Brookhaven ...

Silica gel packets, those tiny pouches you often find in new shoes, vitamin bottles, or electronics packaging, are designed to soak up moisture.

A member of the physics faculty at the Warsaw University of Technology (WUT) in Poland and one of his graduate students were ...

A new study details the development of a nanoparticle-based system that delivers concentrated chemotherapy specifically to cancer cells and not normal cells, potentially allowing clinicians to ...

Mapping how proteins bind to silica nanoparticle interactions using biophysics by Tokyo University of Science edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Andrew Zinin Editors' notes ...