Xylem vessel pits are tiny openings on the cell wall of water-conducting cells—with pit geometry influencing crop yield through its effect on plant hydraulics and nitrogen transport.

A light-sensitive polymer changes how it conducts heat and lithium ions by switching molecular order, revealing a path toward ...

Twisted graphene precisely aligned with gold nanodisks and coupled with CRISPR achieves attomolar detection of cancer ...

Ritesh Agarwal, Kamal Choudhary, Siddhartha Das, Karthik Duraisamy, Shambhu Ghimire, Padmini Rangamani, Aaswath P. Raman, ...

2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the design and synthesis of molecular machines." The trio took chemistry ...

Breakthroughs in laser control and ion optics are enhancing mass spectrometry imaging, refining molecular mapping with ...

A team of scientists has found a way to slow energy leaks that have impeded the use of tiny nanocrystals in light-driven ...

Scientists grew defective graphene using Azupyrene, making it more useful for sensors and semiconductors. The defects alter how the material interacts with other substances. Researchers have ...

Molecular Biology is the field of biology that studies the composition, structure and interactions of cellular molecules such as nucleic acids and proteins that carry out the biological processes ...