In the 2,000 years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural ...

Released Jointly with Vanderbilt University: A collaboration between scientists at Vanderbilt University and the University of California, San Francisco has led to the first direct information about ...

What if a surface could instantly switch from sticky to slippery at the push of a button? By using electricity to control how ...

Tuberculosis is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, infecting about one-quarter of the world's population. Although it is treatable, the rise of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis poses a ...

The Royal Society is a self-governing Fellowship of many of the world's most distinguished scientists drawn from all areas of science, engineering and medicine, and is the oldest scientific academy in ...