Rare earth elements are an easy-to-find, hard-to-refine resource critical for everything from magnets and electronics to ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The challenge: the process seemed random and notoriously difficult to predict.

Indian scientists have developed a non-invasive technique that allows real-time measurement of the local density of ...

By applying machine learning to experimental data in materials science, it may be possible to replicate such intuition ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Researchers uncover geometric principles governing how particles self-assemble, solving a long-standing challenge in ...

The USDA first published guidance in 1980, then a food pyramid in 1992 and a 2011 "MyPlate" version. Here's how they stack up ...

It has been confirmed that some dogs with exceptional learning abilities can learn the names of objects by eavesdropping on ...

Every five years, the U.S. government releases an updated set of recommendations on healthy eating. This document, called the ...

When a baby smiles at you, it's almost impossible not to smile back. This spontaneous reaction to a facial expression is part ...

Decades of advances in medical technology and public health are causing global populations to age. While achieving longer lives is certainly a net ...

To better understand the complex interactions between nature’s hunters and hunted, researchers gathered at the the ...