Xylem vessel pits are tiny openings on the cell wall of water-conducting cells—with pit geometry influencing crop yield through its effect on plant hydraulics and nitrogen transport.

MIT researchers have devised a new molecular technique that lets electrons probe inside atomic nuclei, replacing massive particle accelerators with a tabletop setup. By studying radium monofluoride, ...

A light-sensitive polymer changes how it conducts heat and lithium ions by switching molecular order, revealing a path toward ...

Ritesh Agarwal, Kamal Choudhary, Siddhartha Das, Karthik Duraisamy, Shambhu Ghimire, Padmini Rangamani, Aaswath P. Raman, ...

Scientists grew defective graphene using Azupyrene, making it more useful for sensors and semiconductors. The defects alter how the material interacts with other substances. Researchers have ...

2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines." The trio took chemistry ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

Cubic and blue phases have attracted a significant amount of attention because of their unusual phase structures with optical isotropy and because of their application to ion transfer in the cubic ...

Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating a new type of molecular structure that has been used to extract carbon dioxide from the air and separate pollutants from water. The ...