Belgium’s Tim Merlier won his second stage at this year’s Tour de France on Sunday, outsprinting Jonathan Milan and Arnaud De ...

Engineers in South Korea developed a bioinspired air filter that mimics nasal mucus, trapping more particles and lasting ...

One of the problems of conventional filters used in homes, businesses and public spaces is their poor performance. They rely ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

Michael van Gerwen had gone to great lengths to keep his personal life out of the public eye following the announcement of his divorce from ex-wife Daphne. Those close to the three-time world champion ...

ESC (Electrostatic Chuck) is a core component in semiconductor manufacturing equipment that uses electrostatic field force to ...

A May 13, 2016 University of Basel press release (also on EurekAlert), which originated the news item, provides an explanation of van der Waals forces (the most comprehensive I’ve seen) and technical ...

Two-dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenide-based van der Waals heterostructures have been proposed for avant-garde, highly scalable optoelectronic and excitonic devices. Although ab initio ...

van der Waals (vdW) materials are becoming increasingly popular in scientific and industrial applications because of their unique mixture of record electronic, optical, and mechanical properties.