A specialized sponge that works to slurp up pollutants, and then release them as desired, may present a reusable, low-cost solution.

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Dr. Xiaodan Gu, an associate professor in the School of Polymer Science and Engineering at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), has been named one of 400 scientists and engineers nationwide ...

A class of synthetic soft materials called liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) can change shape in response to heat, similar to how muscles contract and ...

Yelena Korochkina, winner of the 2024 Presidential Prize in Science and Innovation for Young Scientists The prize was awarded for developing innovative methods for the effective implementation of ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

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Breakthrough materials that pull water from thin air could offer a sustainable solution to the West's worsening drought ...

Rice University researchers have revealed novel sequence-structure-property relationships for customizing engineered living ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but what if we could recreate their physics in a lab?