Grain boundaries determine how strong a material is: the more grain boundaries, the stronger the material. Grain boundaries move through a material, but how this movement works had until now remained ...

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life. Ever since the Unit Four reactor at ...

In a major advance applying insights from quantum physics to the inner workings of biology, a team of WashU researchers has ...

Hilary Coon, David Grunwald, and Chris Hill have been elected for their scientifically and socially distinguished ...

Recent Advancements in Nanotechnology Reviews Journal The past year has been packed with new findings and creative ...

Shankar Mukherji and the team use a special microscope to look at nanodiamond sensors inside cells. (Photo: Sean Garcia/Arts ...

WashU researchers implanted nanodiamond quantum biosensors into living cells to measure mitochondrial magnetism and ...

A team of scientists working across U.S. and international laboratories has synthesized a single molecule that can be flipped ...

For the first time a molecule has been created that is twisted half-way to a Möbius strip shape, causing its electrons to move in a spiral like a corkscrew that alters its chemistry, and can ...

Researchers have visualized atoms in motion just before a radiation-driven decay process occurs, revealing a surprisingly ...

The human body may seem like a single, self-contained system, but it actually hosts trillions of microscopic organisms. These ...

Cinchona alkaloids have a long and storied history in chemistry. Derived from Cinchona plants, members of the molecular family include the chiral catalyst cinchonidine and quinine, an early ...