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 ...

One sweltering August night, when the fire alarm went off in their dorm and the air conditioning was broken, two undergrads found themselves sitting outside ...

Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in ...

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 ...

Modern fertilizer manufacturing uses the Haber-Bosch and Ostwald processes to fix aerial nitrogen as ammonia, then oxidize ...

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 ...