Chemistry

With the right amount of pressure and surprisingly little heat, a substance found in fossil fuels can transform into pure...

Credit: SONG Yonghui Lithium batteries are easy to explode? Scientists at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) may...

Credit: ZHUANG et al. The USTC team led by Prof. Shu-Hong Yu (USTC), collaborating with Prof. Zhiyong Tang (National Center...

Credit: TANG Junfeng et al. The CAS key lab of quantum information makes a significant progress in quantum orienteering. Under...

The partnership aims to support the development of novel technologies in drug discovery and accelerate scientific talents across CanadaCredit: CQDM...

Credit: ©Science China Press Topological superconductor, with bulk superconducting gap and Majorana fermion states on the surface or edge, is...

Credit: Kate Feller Mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) don't take kindly to captivity. 'They have a general baseline of being angry',...

Credit: ©Science China Press A research group from Zhejiang University in China has found that the noncentrosymmetric compound CaPtAs is...

Credit: Tokyo Tech Superatom is a name given to a cluster of atoms that seem to exhibit properties similar to...

Credit: Riley Barta/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new device to help homeowners cut electricity bills could also provide...

Credit: David Stobbe for University of Saskatchewan SASKATOON--University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers have used a novel combination of techniques to...

Sound signatures from violent fluid events, like bubbles bursting, can be used to measure forces at work during these eventsCredit:...

Techniques for studying the neutron's electrical charges have reached a new level of sensitivityCredit: C. Abel et al., Physical Review...

Patented 'beam chopper' provides cost-effective way to investigate super-fast processes important for tomorrow's technologyCredit: N. Hanacek/NIST Researchers at the National...

Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech On 26 November 2018, the NASA InSight lander successfully set down on Mars in...

The ability to control the spin of atom-like impurities in 2D material hexagonal boron-nitride demonstratedCredit: Dr M. Kianinia A team...

Credit: Zhou et al You can't see them, but most of the metals around you--coins, silverware, even the steel beams...

Single platinum atoms stabilized in C12A7 crystalsCredit: Nature Communications Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have shown that...

Credit: HU Jing Researchers led by Profs. LI Xianfeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese...

Researchers use atomically thin materials -- 1/100,000 the size of a human hair -- to manipulate the phase of light...