Balazs says that the result is “a material that can take in a chemical and turn it into mechanical work, like eating a ...

TROY — A scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created a coronavirus transmission model inspired by one he uses to predict chemical reactions to help the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Research has shown that reactions of alpha-hydroxy acids, similar to the alpha-amino acids that make up modern proteins, form large polymers easily under conditions presumed prevalent on early Earth.

A team of researchers has shown that molecules can be as formidable at scrambling quantum information as black holes by combining mathematical tools from black hole physics and chemical physics and ...

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical ...

The energy-efficient method breaks down Teflon into harmless carbon and sodium fluoride, which can be used directly, without ...

A new model may shed light on what happened to the water that once covered Venus. Venus used to be a lush, watery world like Earth, until a runaway greenhouse effect dried up its surface, leaving the ...

Living systems consist of cells that can grow and divide. Cells take up matter from the outside world to grow, they release waste products, and they are able to divide, creating more cells. A ...

HOUSTON – (April 5, 2024) – If you were to throw a message in a bottle into a black hole, all of the information in it, down to the quantum level, would become completely scrambled. Because in black ...