Why do some elements decay in minutes, while others last billions of years? Certain "magic numbers" of nuclear particles may ...

Tartrazine, a dye used in making Doritos, has a light-absorbing quality that researchers used to apply to mice so they could ...

Graphene is stronger than steel and a better conductor that copper, making the two-dimensional material of particular ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

A virtual laboratory under development at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro aims to let students experiment with physics concepts without physically being in a lab. Computer simulations ...

When two sheets of carbon atoms are twisted to the “magic” angle of 1.1 degrees, many properties of their electrons abruptly change, and the material — known as magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene — ...

Doritos are a revered snack for many. Now, scientists have found one of the ingredients in the triangle-shaped tasty tortilla chips has a superpower – it can make the skin of mice transparent.