IT is generally accepted that the low-angle X-ray diffraction pattern of collagen is unidimensional in the direction of the fibre axis with a fundamental period of 640 A. 1. Variations in the water ...

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Building material samples from the University of Delaware spent six months bolted to the outside of the International Space ...

Materials scientists at Rice University have developed a new workflow methodology for measuring microscopic defects in ...

Ferromagnetism has long been studied in a wide range of periodic crystals and amorphous materials. In quasicrystals (QCs), ...

Unlike almost every other kind of microscope, atomic-force microscopes (AFMs) don’t use any kind of optical beam to image ...

University of Utah researchers have demonstrated a new method of 3D printing that avoids the leaky seams that come with the ...

An international team including scientists from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has used neutron ...

When viruses travel through the air in tiny droplets, they can quickly start to dry out. Yet many viruses remain infectious ...