Pills get into your bloodstream by dissolving in your stomach. But the point of your stomach is to quickly dissolve things, so drug companies have a problem if they want to give you something that ...

Astronomers rarely get a chance to crack open a planet and see what’s inside, but in two cases a star is doing the job for them, and they’re using that opportunity to understand what makes solar ...

Introduction Have you ever added a spoon of sugar to your tea and wondered why it disappeared? Where did it go? The sugar did not actually disappear—it changed from its solid form into a dissolved ...

Coral reefs aren't just bleaching—they're literally dissolving away because of climate change. And before the end of the century, most reefs around the world may be dissolving faster than they can ...

Before dissolving microneedles can be made widely available, however, clinical studies will have to be done to assure safety and effectiveness. Other vaccine formulation techniques may also be studied ...

When I last spoke to John Rogers from the University of Illinois, we talked about his new “electronic skin” – a patch that can be applied like a temporary tattoo, that monitor heartbeats and brain ...

Will soda dissolve your teeth? The short answer is ‘no,’ and the longer answer is, ‘no, of course not.’ And yet there is a rumor, and has been for decades, that a nail dropped in coca cola will be ...