The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without friction at extremely low temperatures, a phase now known as superfluid. Soon ...

These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements — and could prove useful in catalysts ...

Scientists finally identify why statins can cause the 'painful' side effect in some people ...

Scientists have developed a computational method that quantifies and generates 3D maps of steric effects. The technique is more accurate than existing approaches and tests show it works across a wide ...

Atorvastatin (Lipitor) and other statins may cause myalgia (muscle pain, tenderness, or weakness) in some people. Actual ...

Dark matter is a mysterious type of matter that does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, yet is predicted to account for most ...

Using the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, scientists have found that the quark-gluon ...

A research team, affiliated with UNIST, has unveiled a flexible photodetector, capable of converting light across a broad ...

Physicists have coaxed clusters of thousands of atoms into a delicate quantum limbo, creating a record breaking version of ...

Published January 7 in the journal Nature, one paper tackled the age-old problem of nature’s construction with a bit of a twist: it suggests that living networks, like our brain, may use some of the ...

Spanning billions of years, lunar soil could store a chemical record of ancient gases—materials that may one day support ...