A Spelunker Thought She Found Trash in a Cave. It Was Actually Evidence of a Lost Civilization.

A mapping expedition in the Tlayócoc cave in Mexico led a professional cave explorer to a hidden chamber containing shocking evidence of an extinct civilization.

Metal-organic frameworks: Nobel-winning, tiny 'sponge crystals' with an astonishing amount of inner space

The 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi on Oct. 8, 2025, for the development of metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, which are tunable crystal ...
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Tiny surface shapes steer cancer cells, paving the way for better lab tests and safer implants

Griffith University researchers have shown that the shape and surface chemistry of microscopic "re-entrant" structures—tiny overhanging caps arranged like mushroom tops—can tune how cancer cells stick ...
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Solids full of holes: Crux of a Nobel find

It is like piecing together a Lego structure, but with molecular components. Metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, the subject of the research behind this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry, are a class of ...