Harvard researchers discover that ultracold temperatures slow chemical reactions to sluggish speeds, gifting them with a glimpse of how molecules transform and insights into the…
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The glass structure of a material is often believed to mimic its corresponding liquid. Polyamorphism between ices has been used as a guide to elucidate…
During the explosion of an oxygen molecule: the X-ray laser XFEL knocks electrons out of the two atoms of the oxygen molecule and initiates its…
The colors in this newly discovered phase of liquid crystal shift as researchers apply a small electric field. Credit: SMRC Researchers at the University of…
Scientists have directly seen the first step in a light-driven chemical reaction for the first time. They used an X-ray free-electron laser at SLAC to…
Monolayer Janus MoSSe, a compound of molybdenum, sulfur, and selenium developed at Rice University, is adept at detecting biomolecules via surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Its nonmetallic…
Ocean Currents. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Growth of an Organism Rides on a Pattern of Waves Study shows ripples across a…
Left: The red circles indicate where samples were taken. The team avoided sampling from the central part of the portrait. The areas noninvasively examined via…
Direct hit. A soft x-ray (white) hits a holmium atom (green). A photo-electron zooms off the holmium atom, which releases energy (purple) that jumps to…
The animation shows the vibration energy of the silicon atom in the graphene crystal. Credit: D. Kepaptsoglou, SuperSTEM Scientists working at the frontier of nanotechnology…
Illustration of a zirconium vanadium hydride atomic structure at near ambient conditions as determined using neutron vibrational spectroscopy and the Titan supercomputer at Oak Ridge…
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…
Thermal image sequence showing the exothermic surface reaction front moving over the catalyst. Credit: ACS Catalysis; DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b04475 Researchers at EPFL have developed a reactor…
The fingerprint of protonated C60. Credit: Radboud University It is one of the most common forms of carbon in space: C60, a soccer ball-shaped carbon…