The northern and southern lights, auroras visible from the poles, glow with a range of different colored lights. Here's the ...

Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.

A recent study by researchers from Peking University demonstrates the potential of nuclear electric resonance to control the nuclear spins of nitrogen atoms in DNA using electric field gradients, ...

As part of the Q-NEXT quantum research center, Randall Goldsmith of the University of Wisconsin–Madison studies the interplay of light and matter, harnessing it for quantum information technologies.

There are striking similarities between how elementary particles come together to form atoms, molecules and eventually ...

In Bohr’s 1913 papers he envisaged atoms along the lines established by his mentor Ernest Rutherford: dense nuclei orbited by ...

Attractive metal-metal bonding occurs in a variety of molecules made of metallic atoms such as Iridium (Ir). Current ...

Researchers develop a new catalyst design that makes CO2 conversion into industrial chemicals more efficient and selective.

In what they're calling the "highest density of mechanical bonds ever achieved," researchers created a super-strong flexible ...

Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of ...

Attractive metal-metal bonding occurs in a variety of molecules made of metallic atoms such as Iridium (Ir). These molecules ...

Scientists have created a catalyst for hydrogen generation from ammonia that becomes more active with time, and by counting atoms revealed changes that boost the catalyst's performance.