It’s become common to read that microplastics – little bits of plastic, smaller than a pencil eraser – are turning up everywhere and in everything, including the ocean, farmland, food and human bodies ...

In one sentence: The nanoscale is the size range from roughly 1 to 100 nanometers, where matter is small enough that surfaces, interfaces, and quantum effects can reshape its physical and chemical ...

Researchers from Rice University have published a new water-based methodology for manufacturing semiconductors containing patterns of metallic and semiconducting wires less than 10 nanometers wide.