Light-driven reactions are at the heart of human vision, photosynthesis and solar power generation. Seeing the very first step opens the door to observing chemical…
Rice University engineers adapt 2D ‘sandwich’ for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. A sandwich of molybdenum, sulfur, and selenium turns out to be deliciously useful for detecting…
Technique may enable molecule-based quantum computing. For years, scientists have looked for ways to cool molecules down to ultracold temperatures, at which point the molecules…
Researchers Develop One-Way Street for Electrons Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill made a one-way street for electrons that may unlock…
New simulations can help researchers design new drugs and vaccines to combat the coronavirus. Scientists are preparing a massive computer model of the coronavirus that…
Growth of an Organism Rides on a Pattern of Waves Study shows ripples across a newly fertilized egg are similar to other systems, from ocean…
Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of RAS, and Russia’s famed Tretyakov Gallery have…
Radiation damage spreads among close neighbors: A single soft x-ray can destroy a protein-sized molecule. A single x-ray can unravel an enormous molecule, physicists report…
Scientists working at the frontier of nanotechnology face huge challenges. The position of a single atom in a material can change the fundamental properties of…
Closely Spaced Hydrogen Atoms Could Facilitate Superconductivity in Ambient Conditions An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material…
Water is all around us and essential for life. Nevertheless, research into its behavior at the atomic level – above all how it interacts with…
A 50-year-old puzzle in statistical mechanics has been solved by an international team of researchers who have proved that two-dimensional (2D) liquids have fundamentally different…
Researchers at EPFL have developed a reactor system and an analysis method that has allowed them to observe the real-time production of synthetic natural gas…
It is one of the most common forms of carbon in space: C60, a soccer ball-shaped carbon molecule, but one that has an extra proton…