Biology has always been an unruly science. Cells divide when they want to. Genes switch on and off like temperamental lights.

Measuring the results of scientific research has seen little federal focus until now. Is it possible to create such a system? What would be the inputs, outputs and structure of the system? What ...

Measuring the 'wettability' of graphene and other 2D materials. Microscopic understanding of wettability can be achieved at the molecular level using 'vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy ...

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In a new paper for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we, alongside colleagues from a diverse range of fields, investigate the prevalence and extent of censorship and self-censorship ...

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Research into graphene—a sheet of carbon a single atom thick—has yielded measurements of the intrinsic strength of the material, showing that graphene is the strongest material ever encountered.

Most people alive today who are not in science or medicine will not be able to quickly recall just ten biologists or ten chemists and their discoveries. Most of them can have a happy life without that ...

Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far, ahead is all her seamen know. —Arthur Hugh Clough Astronauts heading for some distant planet may not be quite as ignorant as Clough’s seamen.