In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According ...

to identify different formal and informal communities within an organization by graphing mail flow. Researchers Joshua Tyler, Dennis Wilkinson and Bernardo Huberman studied e-mails sent between any ...

Sea urchin skeletons may owe some of their strength to a common geometric design. Urchin skeletons display “an incredible diversity of structures at the microscale, varying from fully ordered to ...

Often a compound's biological activity is determined by complex relationships between its structural components. Such a relationship often can only be adequately described and exploited by ...