Among the hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds produced by plants, some may hold the key to treating human ailments and diseases. But recreating these complex, naturally occurring molecules in ...

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

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

A few things set mercury apart from other metals, enabling it to be a liquid at room temperature. . | Credit: videophoto via ...

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A team of physicists has experimentally confirmed a long-predicted sequence of exotic magnetic phases in an atomically thin ...

She laid much of the theoretical groundwork for the atomic bomb, although she did not participate directly in its production.

Scientists have just created a new, strange type of molecule. It’s made of a bunch of atoms bound together in a ring, like ...

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a powerful imaging technique that reveals atomic scale defects inside computer chips for the first time. Using an advanced electron microscopy method, ...

An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the University of Regensburg have created and characterized a molecule unlike any ...

The Möbius strip, a twisted loop with one continuous surface, is inspiring chemists to create new molecular structures. A team has synthesized a type of carbon-based molecule with an unprecedented ...

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...