There is often a pronounced symmetry when you look at the lattice of crystals: the atoms are uniformly arranged. This behavior was also to be expected by a crystal, which physicists from Germany and ...

[3-25-2011] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising drug manufacturers of the potential formation of glass lamellae (glass fragments) in injectable drugs filled in small-volume glass vials[1 ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 9, No. 9 (Nov., 1922), pp. 509-533 (33 pages) 1. Fresh buttons of Agaricus campestris fixed in the standard fixing agents show shrinkage and tearing of the fundamental ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ornithologists first put forth the theory that hummingbirds took in nectar using capillary action (where liquid rises against gravity in a narrow tube) in 1833 and since then no one ...

A zap of lightning can change the very structure of a rock, new research shows. When a high-energy lightning strike bombards a rock, it can heat the rock to more than 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,600 ...