Welcome, dear readers, to X-Men: Bland Design, the weekly multi-part recap column that strives to answer the question: "What if Ed Piskor had no art skills, a juvenile sense of humor, and less classic ...

X-ray diffraction methods lie at the foundation of materials science. Determination of the crystal structures of natural minerals and, later, of crystals grown in the laboratory led to our ...

The experimental foundation of femtochemistry 1 is time-resolved pump–probe spectroscopy, which has been closely linked to the rapid development of ultrafast laser technology in the infrared (IR), ...