A new catalyst built from isolated indium atoms allows scientists to convert CO2 into methanol more efficiently while revealing the hidden chemistry that drives the reaction.

Every chemical reaction faces a barrier: For substances to react with one another, it is first necessary to supply energy. In ...

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

Atoms are 99.999% Empty Space!

Iranians took full advantage of the program. They founded the Tehran Nuclear Research Center at the University of Tehran.

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

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from ...

The carbon atom has six electrons that move faster than bodies move from one form to another, from one type of existence to another, not changing in the changing matter of the thi ...

Fluids moving through pipes lose energy to friction along the walls. Collisions, defects, and random motion steadily break ...

Researchers at Chongqing University and Chongqing Normal University report a theoretical prediction of a new quantum phase of ...

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, ...

Phonons are the collective vibrations that move through a solid. They can be thought of as waves traveling across the atomic ...