A new study led by a pair of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst turns long-held conventional wisdom about ...

A new study turns long-held conventional wisdom about a certain type of polymer on its head, greatly expanding understanding of how some of biochemistry's fundamental forces work. The study opens the ...

Bisphenol A, or BPA, is an organic compound consisting of two phenolic rings (hence 'bi' and 'phenol') joined at the centre ...

“We know a good deal about the movement of the charged ... around in an electrical field inside our bodies. But how do these biopolymers get where they need to go? Are the neutral units merely ...

‘People would tell me ... to do useful work. ‘There are examples of milligrams of photomechanical materials lifting hundreds of grams of weight,’ Beran says. ‘We’ve found that changes in the crystal ...