When we think about creatures skimming across water, images of birds landing or frogs leaping come to mind. But some of ...

Researchers have revealed that commercial pesticides can be applied to crops in the Cucurbitaceae family to decrease their accumulation of hydrophobic pollutants, thereby improving crop safety. The ...

Effective hydrophobic barriers were essential for plants to survive on land, yet how these barriers became specialized across different tissues has ...

Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a novel nanomaterial with hydrophobic properties that allow it to remain dry even when submerged in water. Image Credit: mykhailo ...

Proteins drive nearly all biological functions and insight into their workings is essential for pharmaceutical developments. But now, a pair of scientists from Japan have found that our fundamental ...

These trunks designed to repel water promise to make soggy swimsuits a thing of the past, but months after being funded on Kickstarter, some backers are complaining. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser ...

Scientists at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden say they have disproved the prevailing theory of how DNA binds itself. It is not, they claim, as is generally believed, hydrogen bonds ...