Can you imagine a life-saving molecule whose “twin” is a deadly poison? As surprising as it may seem, this chemical reality is known as “chirality”. Like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules ...

Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us ...

Researchers have developed a breakthrough semiconductor alloy that paves the way for advanced quantum, photonic, and ...

Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and ...

Nicole Havlik of the Edgerton Explorit Center gave a program called "Sparks" for about 80 youngsters and adults at the Grand Island Public Library.

Researchers have just created a new super-heavy isotope of seaborgium, called seaborgium-257. This type of unstable atom does not exist naturally on Earth. Seaborgium-257 lasts for ...

A research team has discovered an electrochemical method that allows highly selective para-position single-carbon insertion ...

A research team has discovered an electrochemical method that allows highly selective para-position single-carbon insertion into polysubstituted ...

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UC Riverside scientists built a molecular silicon switch that controls electricity using quantum interference instead of ...

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll ...