With the flip of a switch, scientists harness light to program how particles interact and assemble

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

A world first at the microscopic scale: Metamaterials that can shrink and expand on their own

Leiden physicists Daniela Kraft and Julio Melio have created soft structures that can take on different shapes without any ...
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Break It To Make It: How Fracturing Sculpts Tissues and Organs

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Jupiter’s Moons May Have Been Born With Life’s Building Blocks

“Our findings suggest that Jupiter’s moons did not form as chemically pristine worlds,” Mousis said. “Instead, they may have accreted, or accumulated, a significant inventory of COMs at birth, ...

From Tehran to Dubai: Geolocated videos show the shockwaves of US-Israeli strikes — and Iran’s retaliation

Videos show the impacts of the attacks and Tehran’s subsequent retaliation across the Middle East ...