Yuwei Gu was hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York when inspiration struck. Plastic bottles littered the trail ...

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative," wrote H. G. Wells. This principle—that survival requires ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints that poorly understood prions may have been the vital missing ingredient ...

A polymer is a substance made of many repeating units linked together, like beads on a string. Plastics are polymers, and so ...

Yuwei Gu was hiking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York when inspiration struck.Plastic bottles littered the trail and more floated on a ...

Rutgers researchers use a principle in nature to create plastics that self-destruct at programmed speeds, offering a solution to global plastic ...

Correcting misinformation after it has gone viral is a common way of informing the public that what they’ve encountered may ...

Inspired by natural polymers like DNA, chemists have devised a way to engineer plastic so it breaks down when it is no longer needed, rather than polluting the environment ...

DNA scaffolds that mirror influenza virus protein geometry boost antiviral binding and reduce infection more effectively than free molecules, enabling a modular antiviral design strategy.

Correcting misinformation after it has gone viral is a common way of informing the public that what they've encountered may ...

A routine hike through Bear Mountain State Park turned into a turning point for Rutgers chemist Yuwei Gu. He stopped when he ...

Mirkin is one of only two Northwestern University faculty members to receive this prestigious award. He joins professor and IIN-affiliated faculty member Tobin J. Marks, who received the 2017 Harvey ...