A student playing around with fluids and magnetic materials in the lab may have accidentally found an "exception" to the laws of thermodynamics, according to the authors of a new paper based on his ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is widely recognised as the driest nonpolar desert in the world ...

PCFM Lab, GD HPPC Lab, Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Centre for High-performance Organic and Polymer Photoelectric Functional Films, GBRCE for Functional Molecular Engineering, State Key ...

Metal ions are positively charged and hydrophilic (water-absorbing), while the cell membrane is hydrophobic (water-repelling) and nonpolar, acting as a natural barrier. "Transporters need to ...