1+ hour, 37+ min ago  (932+ words) Custom-made empty spaces grant these materials many useful powers Much like the wooden framework of a house, the chemical structures of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are full of empty spaces. Those gaps allow MOFs to interact in specific ways with other…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1196+ words) It registers their touch by disrupting the screen's electric field An experimental nail polish could one day make it easier for people with long nails to use touchscreens. If you wear long nails, you know that they can make it…...

3+ mon, 5+ hour ago  (1729+ words) Based on graphene, it can deal a knockout punch to germs on surfaces " even in your mouth Paula B'rgisser and Giacomo Reina, scientists at EMPA, helped develop a new material that can kill germs when activated by light. Graphene is…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago  (1069+ words) Scientists borrowed the technique from a popular style of decorating pottery These drawings show some of the designs that scientists could stencil onto tiny gold particles. Using a mixture of chemicals, a team of researchers made more than 20 different patterns…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (850+ words) The newly designed MOFs can trap some harmful PFAS fast " and be reused again and again New materials could someday help remove PFAS from drinking water. Researchers are tweaking the chemistry of these PFAS traps to improve their performance and…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1396+ words) Mysterious boulders that naturally moved across a desert landscape inspired the new work As ice melts on an aluminum plate etched with a herringbone pattern, guided flow of its meltwater can slingshot the ice with surprising speed. Blocks of ice…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1350+ words) These unusual structures can collect water from air, capture greenhouse gases and much more Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi (illustrated left to right) picked up the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for work on metal-organic frameworks. These molecular structures…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1357+ words) Methane bubbles spark tiny zaps of electricity that may ignite cool flames of the gas Glowing balls of light have been seen above swamps and cemeteries around the world. Swamp will-o-the-wisps are believed to be burning bits of seeping methane…...

7+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1164+ words) Knowing how a star system's water changes over time might help reveal how planets can host life L1527 is a baby star surrounded by dust and gas. The young star's glow lights up the area above and below it as seen…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1752+ words) This "micro-lightning" might one day be used to power greener chemistry Peeling tape can create a separation of positive and negative charges that triggers lightning " micro-lightning. These sparks of energy, illustrated here, may one day be put to useful work....