All Stories by Jessica Gorman
- Materials Science
X Rays to Go: Carbon nanotubes could shrink machines
A new type of X-ray machine operates at room temperature by producing X-ray-generating electrons with carbon nanotubes instead of traditional heated metal filaments.
- Materials Science
Spring in your step? The forces in cartilage
Researchers are uncovering the role of molecular forces in cartilage's ability to resist compression.
- Chemistry
Ions on the Move: Theory of hydroxide’s motion overturned
New computer calculations reveal that a long-held belief about the hydroxide ion's movement in water is wrong.
- Chemistry
Molecule Sorting: Antibody membrane lends a hand
A new membrane may make it easier to separate mixtures of drug molecules that exist in mirror-image versions into their two components.
- Chemistry
A crystal takes on an unusual topology
A single crystal exhibits the unusual topology known as a Möbius strip.
- Astronomy
Rare Find: Odd type of ammonia detected in space
The discovery of deuterated ammonia in space could help astronomers better understand the complex chemistry of dark clouds in star-forming regions.
- Earth
The Air That’s Up There
Researchers are exploring how trees affect the chemistry of the atmosphere.
- Chemistry
Carbon nanotubes burn when flashed
Carbon nanotubes can ignite when exposed to an ordinary camera flash.
- Materials Science
Beyond Jell-O: New ideas gel in the lab
Researchers have created a new class of hydrogels that might prove useful in tissue engineering, drug delivery, and other biomedical applications.
- Chemistry
Minimotor: Single molecule does some work
A single molecule has performed mechanical work—pulling and releasing a cantilever tip—when exposed to light.
- Materials Science
Self-Sutures: New material knots up on its own
Researchers have used a new biodegradable material to make surgical sutures that knot and tighten themselves as they warm to body temperature.
- Chemistry
Fluorine atoms used to cut nanotubes
Researchers have found that they can cut carbon nanotubes into short, potentially useful pieces using a technique for adding groups of atoms to nanotubes.
