Gold has long stood apart from other metals. It does not rust like iron or tarnish like silver. Its shine endures across centuries, even in open air. For years, scientists believed this stability came ...

It's one thing to design a pharmaceutical drug. It's another to know if and why it actually works; not on paper or in a computer model, but inside the chaotic world of living systems, where proteins ...

Gold may stay shiny because some of its surface atoms reorganize into structures that block oxygen reactions. Gold has been valued for millennia because it keeps its shine, but new research from ...

Conventional wisdom holds that innovation is the domain of bold entrepreneurs and private enterprise, with government at best ...

In her first year of graduate school at Stanford University, back in 2021, Sydney Erickson knew only that she was going to be a physicist. Now Erickson is finishing her doctoral degree and ...

A Soviet satellite changed your living room more than you might think.

Research by Gloria Mark and colleagues at the University of California, Irvine found that knowledge workers switched tasks or ...

A new nuclear reactor design skips fuel entirely—eliminating meltdown risk while testing a safer future for nuclear power.

Companies working at the frontier of aerospace, energy and computing are constantly looking for new materials to improve performance. But in order to understand how those materials will actually ...

Aalo Atomics has achieved criticality for its Aalo-X Critical Test Reactor at Idaho National ...