Solar power is no longer inching forward, it is compounding. In laboratories and early commercial lines, scientists are stacking new materials, coatings, and designs that push panels far beyond the ...

Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits, and ...

Many molecules used in medicines have a symmetry known as handedness; they have the same atoms connected in the same order, ...

A newly isolated three-atom aluminum ring reveals unexpected chemistry that could help replace costly metals used in industrial reactions.

Researchers from Germany, Japan and India, led by scientists from DESY and the Universities of Kiel and Hamburg, have found a way to collectively make molecules on a flat surface rotate by exposing ...

Drug discovery is like molecular Tetris. Chemists snap atoms together, adjusting the pieces until everything fits and suddenly, a molecule makes a ...

Multivitamins slow down biological ageing by about two months a year among people over 70, a study suggests. The benefits of taking multivitamins have been hotly disputed for decades, with many ...

At the center of this effort is the Expanse system at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), part of UC San Diego’s ...

Max Planck was a famous German physicist who started quantum theory and changed modern science. His ideas helped scientists understand atoms and tiny particles. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in ...

Chemists have created the first-ever half-Möbius molecule. The orbitals of the 13-carbon ring twist by only a quarter turn ...

Scientists have created the smallest QR code in the world, measuring just 3.07 × 10⁻⁹ square inches (1.98 square micrometers). It can preserve data for thousands of years and it's so small that you ...

Professor Sir Anthony Leggett, the theoretical physicist who has died aged 87, shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his ...