Near-field optical trapping has transformed particle manipulation in biology, chemistry, and nanotechnology, enabling contact-free control of objects ranging from nanoparticles to living cells.

Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Freed’s scientific trajectory began early; he and his brother Jack, who himself would go on to ...

No "sticky ends"? No problem. A new study by NYU chemists finds that DNA tiles can assemble into 3D structures without the ...

My overarching goal in the lab is to understand organic reactions by studying their electron transfer mechanisms,” said Kristine Legaspi, a chemistry graduate student at the San Diego State University ...

Speeding up drug discovery in the age of AI may come down to a concept that’s comfortingly old-fashioned: Consulting a chemistry recipe book. It makes perfect sense. Designing a new synthetic molecule ...

The interstellar comet 31/ATLAS has already rewritten scientific expectations, but a rapidly growing catalog of anomalies is now pushing researchers into uncomfortable territory. As the object slices ...

The international system has been ruptured. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, gridlock at the un, growing American mercantilism and paralysis at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) have all contributed to ...

CLE's course "Disciplines Without Borders: Multidisciplinarity in Literature, Art, and Sciences," taught by Professor Victoria Juharyan, explores themes of science and mathematics in famous Russian ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...