Scientists succeed in using bacteria and discarded bread to replace fossil fuels in an innovative sustainable industrial ...

A research team in China has developed an electrolyte using monofluorinated hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) solvents capable of ...

Tiny changes at the atomic scale can determine the future of clean energy. In a new study, Tohoku University researchers have revealed how the precise coordination environment surrounding a single ...

Astronomers captured this stunning image of the Milky Way’s center, revealing a web of gas, dust and stars in extraordinary detail ...

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

Cottrell teacher-scholar award winner Meaghan Deegan balances cutting-edge research in synthetic compound stabilization with ...

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The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

The powerful software can reduce the time needed to simulate reactions with large molecules from weeks to just minutes.

X-ray free electron lasers (XFELs) are particle accelerators that create pulses of light of extremely short duration, similar to that of some lasers used in eye surgery. Combined with the X-ray energy ...

Almost half a century ago, a remarkable molecule called metallocene took center stage in chemistry, earning Geoffrey Wilkinson and Ernst Otto Fischer the Nobel Prize. These organic compounds, made of ...

Formic acid is considered a molecule in which all atoms lie in a single plane. A research team at Goethe University, together with cooperation ...