Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and ...

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He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of ...

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The universe follows predictable rules, behaving classically according to Einstein’s theory of general relativity. So, what ...

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A research team led by Dr. Kee Young Koo from the Hydrogen Research Department at the Korea Institute of Energy Research (President: Yi Chang-Keun ...

Knowable Magazine reports on attosecond science, revealing how scientists study atomic interactions at unbelievable speeds to ...

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and ...

Carboxylic acids are ubiquitous in bioactive organic molecules and readily available chemical building blocks. Carboxylic ...

I'm a conservative without a conversion story. Plenty of others have such a tale — they read a certain book, had a certain ...