A Boston-based startup called Catalog has been working for five years to prove that it can use strands of synthetic DNA to store information more efficiently than current computers, and even run ...

The efficiency of a fuel-generating chemical reaction can be boosted dramatically by mixing chemicals and catalysts inside nanoscopic test tubes, Chinese researchers have shown. A team from the Dalian ...

Sara Sheykhi collected these colorful solutions in test tubes as they flowed from a silica gel column, which is used to separate chemical mixtures. Sheykhi is a postdoc at North Carolina State ...

The world’s smallest test tube has been created by UK scientists. And the tiny structures could be used to produce materials with unique properties. A team with members from the University of Oxford ...

Hate to burst your bubble, glass lab gear. But plastic bubble wrap also works pretty well at running science experiments. Scientists at Harvard University have figured out a way to use these petite ...

Researchers from Harvard have devised a new use for "the gas-filled compartments in the packing material commonly called 'bubble wrap.'" As they report in the journal Analytical Chemistry, bubble wrap ...

When Federico Begato grew this crystal of a fluorescent organic nanomaterial so he could determine its structure by X-ray diffraction, he noticed that it kind of looked like a boat. So he decided to ...