The word magic is not often used in the context of science. But in the early 1930s, scientists discovered that some atomic ...

The most expensive thing you can buy isn’t a palace, a metal or even a jewel. Rather, it is a powder that most of us have ...

For the first time, researchers have captured nanoscale video footage of hydrogen and oxygen atoms combining into water out of "thin air" — thanks to a rare metal catalyst. The super-efficient ...

The general formula for the alkanes is C n H 2n+2 (where n is the number of carbon atoms in the molecule ... and structural formulae as well as a drawing of their ball-and-stick constructional ...

This breakthrough could bring us one step closer to an energy source that could be scaled up to provide all the power we need ...

Next-generation technologies, such as leading-edge memory storage solutions and brain-inspired neuromorphic computing systems ...

Major shifts have been taking place in the race to commercialize nuclear fusion, but one high school senior has shaken the ...

A chemistry professor and a music professor collaborated to deepen student understanding of both fields through integration ...

In a recent lecture before the Royal Institution he selected as his subject "The Existence of Bodies Smaller than Atoms." He briefly referred to work which had been done by others in theory and ...

As this year’s physics Nobel demonstrates, dismissing blue-sky research altogether is also to forfeit opportunities in technology ...