Sara Sheykhi collected these colorful solutions in test tubes as they flowed from a silica gel column, which is used to separate chemical mixtures. Sheykhi is a postdoc at North Carolina State ...

Hate to burst your bubble, glass lab gear. But plastic bubble wrap also works pretty well at running science experiments. Scientists at Harvard University have figured out a way to use these petite ...

When Federico Begato grew this crystal of a fluorescent organic nanomaterial so he could determine its structure by X-ray diffraction, he noticed that it kind of looked like a boat. So he decided to ...