Iowa State's Kun Luo displays the kind of model he creates to illustrate the atomic structures of materials. In this case, he's showing an atomic model of a diamond. AMES, Iowa – In just the first few ...

When the coronavirus causing COVID-19 infects human cells, the cell's protein-processing machinery makes modifications to the spike protein that render it more flexible and mobile, which could ...

Graphite surface microscopic image and valence band structure together with atomic structure models. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as part of news ...

When metal alloys are processed during manufacturing, the atoms of the combined elements are mixed together at random, ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

For decades, scientists have known that motor proteins like kinesin-2 ferry vital cargo along microtubule "highways" inside cells.