Category: 7. Science

Pathogens can create sticky situations. When microbes invade the body to cause an infection, often one of their first lines of attack is to cling tenaciously to the surfaces of targeted human cells.

Certain antibodies employ unusual tactics to…

Moving MOFs to real-world solutions

Building on the foundational Nobel Prize-winning work, researchers at Berkeley Lab and its DOE user facilities continue to push MOF technology to address major global challenges.

For example, at the ALS, a…

Researchers at CU Boulder have created tiny, microorganism-inspired particles that can change their shape and self-propel, much like living things, in response to electrical fields.

One day, these shape-shifting “active particles” could be…

PD Dr Philipp Girichidis, Prof Dr Ralf S Klessen and Dr Stefan Reissl at Heidelberg University’s Centre for Astronomy provide insights into our place in the Milky Way and the Local Bubble

The region of the Milky Way in which the solar system…

Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning accomplishment: empirical evidence that they used…