The Innsbruck Physics Lecture has welcomed many distinguished researchers to Innsbruck, among them several Nobel laureates, ...

Cows eat grass...everyone knows that. But climate change is forcing producers and scientists to rethink some of our long-held ...

In 1982, materials scientist Dan Shechtman observed an unusual tenfold symmetry in an aluminum-manganese alloy, defying the ...

A new study examined DNA traces on the Shroud of Turin and found plant and food-related material, suggesting the cloth may have been contaminated over centuries.

Researchers also observed a strong presence of peanuts, along with weaker traces of grasses such as ryegrass, bluegrass, fescue, oats, and clovers.

Crystallography lets scientists see materials as systems of ordered atoms, turning materials research into a predictive science. In revealing how atomic arrangements govern strength, conductivity, and ...

One longstanding problem has sidelined life-saving drugs, stalled next-generation batteries, and kept archaeologists from identifying the origins of ancient artifacts. For more than 100 years, ...

Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors have emerged as powerful tools in gene therapy, potentially treating various genetic disorders. Engineering the AAV capsids through computational methods enables ...

In 2022, a study revealed that about 800 papers published in crystallography and exotic-chemistry journals originated from a paper mill. At the time, popular scientific sleuth David Bimler noted in ...