A new way to chill out is simple: Just unwind. Called twistocaloric cooling, the method involves unwinding tightly twisted strands of various materials. The technique was used to chill water by ...
Advances in microscopy reveal how the human genome organises itself in three-dimensional space at much higher resolution than previously possible. A new study finds that transcription generates a ...
Reversible nanohelix transformation is one of the most exquisite and important phenomena in nature. Nanomaterials rarely form helical crystals. Due to the irreversibility of the previously studied ...
Scientists are unraveling the properties of electricity-conducting plastics so they can be used in future energy-harvesting devices. Untwisting chains of atoms within a plastic polymer improves its ...
The achievement could have wide-ranging impacts in materials science and crystallography. It introduces the concept of "elastic" crystals whose structures can change back and forth, as well as the ...
The Nature Index 2025 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...
Microbial natural products and the specific subset with antibiotic activity, 'the antibiotic'ome', consist of a dizzying array of structures and exert their effects by many known modes of action. In ...
Untwisting chains of atoms within a plastic polymer improves its ability to conduct electricity, according to a report by researchers, led by Nagoya University applied physicist Hisaaki Tanaka, in the ...
The 'smart' societies of the future are expected to contain a large number of electronic devices that are interconnected through the Internet: the so-called Internet-of-things. Scientists have been ...