New geological model provides missing information on what drives Earth's magnetic dynamo
Magnesium-Powered Magnetism
Electricity from Heartbeats
Piezoelectric microgenerators could use the body's movements to power biomedical implants
Fire-Retardant Graphene Foams
Ultralight compressible foam outperforming traditional flame-retardant materials
Metal-Free Arene-Alkyne Cross-Coupling
Simple sulfoxide-directed reaction leads to useful molecular scaffolds
Keeping Your Touch Screens Clean
Designing device screens that resist fingerprints requires understanding how fingerprints behave
Answering Nature’s Call with a Drug
Medicinal chemists develop a new lead candidate against overactive bladder
Writing With a Bubble Pen
Bubble-pen nanolithography produces precise patterns of nanoparticles on a plasmonic substrate
Tiny Tubes Do Speedy Cleanup
Micromotor device cleans up wastewater pollutants by using them for fuel
Identifying Bacterial Biofilms
A fluorescent probe for monitoring biofilms in clinical situations has been discovered
Silver Wires Make a Rainbow
Plasmon resonances in nanowire arrays rotate polarized light, creating a wide range of colors