Chemistry

Credit: Matthew R. Henry By energizing precursor molecules using a tiny, high-energy supersonic jet of inert gas, researchers have dramatically...

The water repelling characteristic that plants possess inspired Texas A&M researchers to develop a way to control the hydrophobicity of...

Machine learning allows quantum mechanics to be efficiently applied to molecular simulations for drug development, detonation physics and moreCredit: Los...

Credit: Elle Starkman Beryllium, a hard, silvery metal long used in X-ray machines and spacecraft, is finding a new role...

Princeton University's Lindy McBride is studying how and why disease-bearing mosquitoes feed almost exclusively on humansCredit: Danielle Alio, Princeton University...

Credit: D. Navarro In 1665, Lord Christiaan Huygens found that two pendulum clocks, hung in the same wooden structure, oscillated...

An interdisciplinary research group from Aarhus University has proposed a previously overlooked physical-chemical process that can explain the rapid disappearance...

Owens Valley Radio Observatory is providing new clues in an ongoing cosmic mysteryCredit: Caltech/OVRO/Gregg Hallinan Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are...

A physical constant, which is of great importance for basic research, has now be re-measured, with much higher precision than...

Quantum cascade laser-based infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry could offer real-time monitoring for industrial and scientific applications WASHINGTON -- Researchers have used...

Material developed at MIT can passively capture solar heat for home heating or industrial applicationsCredit: Lin Zhao CAMBRIDGE, MA --...

Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Hustak (STScI) Two NASA space telescopes have teamed up to identify, for the first time,...

Researchers at Leibniz University Hannover and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt develop more sensitive quantum sensorsCredit: Fabian Wolf For centuries, humans have been...

A method of weighing the quantities of matter in galaxy clusters - the largest objects in our universe - has...

Physicists at Mainz University intend to detect axions using a new comagnetometer configurationCredit: ©Arne Wickenbrock, JGU Matter surrounds us day...

NSF funds UC San Diego plan to generate -- and study -- the world's first high-intensity laser pulses shaped like...

A new way to deliver a force to drive micro mechanicsCredit: Kazuya Harii Micro mechanical elements are indispensable components of...

Credit: OIST Baking a cake from scratch is a task deemed difficult for many. Constructing an artificial cell-like system from...

Credit: © 2019 KAUST Mixing microbes with carbon nanomaterials could help the transition to renewable energy. KAUST research shows microbes...

City College of New York-led researchers have published a breakthrough in understanding previously unknown inner workings related to the lateralization...