Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have created a remarkable new material that works like a “rechargeable solar battery,” storing ...

Some of Earth’s tiniest life-forms inhabit slowly sinking particles of fish poop and debris, playing a crucial role in ocean ...

Can "snow" fall in the ocean and influence the climate of the entire planet? It turns out that it can. Research conducted by scientists from the Faculty of Physics at University of Warsaw, published ...

Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the ...

Sitting in a restaurant, you reach for the ketchup bottle, eyeing the basket of fries in front of you. You give the bottle a ...

Genetically altered bacteria can synthesise gadusol, a naturally occurring compound found in zebrafish eggs that could be ...

A water-based formulation developed at the University of Waterloo using nanotechnology is both greener and more effective ...

Mr. Alex Zabbia, executive at Synercore Dairy, navigates the complex colloid engineering behind ice cream, exploring how Synercore's ingredient specialists balance physical chemistry whilst mastering ...

Particulate materials, from macroparticles to colloids and nanoparticles, might be critical regulators of geochemical cycles in aquatic environments. However, their behaviors are profoundly dictated ...

Imagine a “smart fluid” whose internal structure can be rearranged just by changing temperature. In a new study in Matter, researchers report a way to overcome a long-standing limitation in a class of ...

On a frigid Norwegian afternoon earlier this month, Dan Quintana, a psychology professor at the University of Oslo, decided to stay in and complete a tedious task that he had been putting off for ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on scientists and scientific research. Why did we do this? Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...