Cleaner, more pure water backscatters light in the blue range, which makes it look blue. One famous example is Crater Lake in ...

A hybrid microscope allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. The microscope combines polarized ...

Ryugu's sodium-rich minerals suggest ancient interactions with brine, offering insights into aqueous processes in ...

Research on ferroelectric materials shows that optimizing charge dynamics and reducing defects significantly improve ...

An international team has developed a new technique to recycle perovskite solar cells (PSC) made on glass substrates using a water-based solution. Tests showed that the recycled cells were as ...

In a study published in Optics Express, a research group led by Prof. Fu Yuxi from Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision ...

Porous organic crystals with superior properties as CO2 adsorbents were created by researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo.

Water isn't just liquid, ice, or vapor — under extreme conditions, it can transform into exotic phases, such as the newly observed plastic ice VII. This hybrid phase, predicted years ago but only ...

Researchers have discovered various topological structures in water waves (skyrmions, merons, Möbius and vortices with ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong created a new silk-based water filter that works 10 times faster than current ...

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