In a discovery recently published in Nature, MIT chemists led by Professor Alison Wendlandt have developed a precision technique that allows scientists to seamlessly relocate alcohol functional groups ...

A small drug molecule that appears to protect normal tissue from the damaging effects of radiation, may simultaneously be able to boost the cancer-killing effect of radiation therapy, according to a ...

How do organic solar cells work on the inside? The answer lies in structures far too small to see—and difficult to access even with advanced techniques. So far, researchers have relied mainly on X-ray ...

Nascimur uno modo, multis morimu ('in one way we are born, in many ways we die'), and there is probably no single way to age. Indeed, so far there is no single accepted explanation or mechanism of ...

EU researchers are turning carbon emissions from urban waste into everyday household products—from cleaning liquids to ...

Scientists at the Qinghai Institute of Salt Lakes in China have developed microscopic material ...