A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration between ...

Researchers at ETH have used nuclear magnetic resonance to find out what other atoms are bound to the platinum atoms in a single-atom catalyst and where they are spatially located. The precise ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

Water and air pose completely different challenges to animals on a number of levels.

What happens when the smallest building blocks of matter refuse to play by the rules of traditional physics? For decades, ...

A team led by researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology have found a new method to separate right- ...

Researchers at the ICN2 and the UAB have developed a novel strategy to obtain different types of organic molecules by ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

Wild tomatoes in the Galápagos may be reversing evolution—reawakening ancient traits, surprising scientists at UC Riverside.