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Why some Georgia O’Keeffe paintings have ‘art acne’

Tiny protrusions are from chemical reactions in the paint, say scientists who developed an imaging method that could help curators track the knobs.

By Jeremy Rehm | 9:00am, February 16, 2019

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Chemistry

News | Chemistry

A new 3-D printed ‘sponge’ sops up excess chemo drugs

By Esther Landhuis | 9:00am, January 15, 2019

News in Brief | Chemistry

Your phone could reveal your radiation exposure after a nuclear disaster

By Maria Temming | 6:00am, January 14, 2019

Feature | Chemistry

150 years on, the periodic table has more stories than it has elements

By Elizabeth Quill | 11:29am, January 08, 2019
Condensed Matter

$Sierpinski triangle and quantum fractal$

News in Brief | Condensed Matter

Physicists wrangled electrons into a quantum fractal

By Emily Conover | 11:00am, November 12, 2018

News in Brief | Condensed Matter

Bizarre metals may help unlock mysteries of how Earth’s magnetic field forms

By Emily Conover | 6:00am, November 07, 2018

News | Condensed Matter

A new hydrogen-rich compound may be a record-breaking superconductor

By Emily Conover | 7:00am, September 10, 2018
Materials

News | Materials

A new insulation material is practically weightless yet still durable

By Maria Temming | 2:00pm, February 14, 2019

Teaser | Materials

A new fabric becomes more breathable as you work up a sweat

By Maria Temming | 11:05am, February 08, 2019

News in Brief | Materials

Being messy on the inside keeps metamaterials from folding under stress

By Maria Temming | 12:00pm, January 22, 2019
Physics

$fractals$

News in Brief | Physics

Laser light can contain intricate, beautiful fractals

By Emily Conover | 8:00am, February 05, 2019

News | Physics

Lasers could send messages right to a listener’s ear

By Emily Conover | 11:03am, February 01, 2019

News | Physics

Physicists aim to outdo the LHC with this wish list of particle colliders

By Emily Conover | 6:00am, January 22, 2019
Quantum Physics

News | Quantum Physics

LIGO will be getting a quantum upgrade

By Emily Conover | 2:54pm, February 15, 2019

News | Quantum Physics

Photons reveal a weird effect called the quantum pigeonhole paradox

By Emily Conover | 6:00am, February 13, 2019

Reviews & Previews | Quantum Physics

‘Beyond Weird’ and ‘What Is Real?’ try to make sense of quantum weirdness

By Tom Siegfried | 8:00am, January 06, 2019

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