In a short talk at Caltech, physicist Richard Feynman laid out a vision of manipulating and controlling atoms at the tiniest ...

AlphaFold arrived as a technical moonshot that suddenly made protein structures feel like software rather than secrets of ...

This corralled supercooled liquid relies on the surprising property that some atoms in a liquid remain stationary regardless ...

New research offers clearer insight into how phase transitions unfold at the atomic scale in real materials. When ice turns into water, the change happens almost instantly. Once the melting ...

IIT Madras Professor Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam has won the Rashtriya Vigyan Puraskar 2025 in the Vigyan Yuva category for his pioneering work in affordable medical devices and brain mapping.

Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.

AlphaFold didn't accelerate biology by running faster experiments. It changed the engineering assumptions behind protein ...

Agri-photovoltaics offer a sustainable solution for tomato production and energy generation, demonstrating effective land-use efficiency and productivity.

Faster, more efficient, and more versatile—these are the expectations for the technology that will produce our energy and handle information in the future. But how can these expectations be met? A ...

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers have detailed the synaptic vesicle fusion process, which is crucial for effective neurotransmitter release in the brain.

Traditionally, X-ray methods require at least 10,000 atoms to generate a detectable signal. This is because the X-ray signal ...