Explore one of China’s most breathtaking architectural landmarks — a modern opera house featuring the world’s largest shell ...

New works presents a unified theoretical framework to describe the electronic structure of non-Hermitian systems, potentially leading to major advancements in condensed matter physics ...

Even after decades of research, biologists are still uncovering surprises about the human body. A team of researchers from ...

Every protein in the body is encased in a water shell that directs protein structure, provides vital stability and steers ...

Kanazawa University, report in Small, on how short peptides self-assemble linearly on atomically-thick solid surfaces, such ...

Here, we report the three‐dimensional structures of individual immature HIV‐1 virions, as obtained by electron cryotomography. The concentric shells of the Gag polyprotein are clearly visible, and ...

Density functional theory (DFT) calculations have been carried out for a variety of iron and manganese porphyrin complexes with metal oxidation states of +3 and above. In general, DFT gives very good ...

The eggshell is an important structure for two reasons. Firstly it forms an embryonic chamber for the developing chick, providing mechanical protection and a controlled gas exchange medium. Secondly ...

Some elements in the periodic table, such as carbon, silicon, and germanium, are intrinsic semiconductors due to the number of electrons in their outermost electron shells.

But when she used an electron microscope to study the mineral structure of the heart cockle shell, the calcium carbonate crystals were organized into long, super narrow fibers that were "all ...

A traditional “single bond” is actually two electrons—one from each atom. This is one electron. The fragile bond required outside-the-box thinking, with a complex molecule acting as a shell.