While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward solving a long-standing mystery in particle physics, by finding no sign of the ...

Why does lead behave so differently from every other atomic nucleus when struck by electrons? A team of physicists at ...

In a remarkable shift from conventional knowledge, a recent study reveals groundbreaking insights into the behavior of water ...

Scientists have mapped the atomic interactions that make nanoscale catalysts so effective at converting propane into propylene. The discovery highlights a stabilizing oxide pattern that could guide ...

Astronomers found signs that mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is radiating a "heartbeat" pulse of light that repeats ...

It’s from another Solar System, so of course it’s anomalous.” That refrain from planetary scientists has seldom been more apt ...

Materials chemistry involves the use of chemistry for the design and synthesis of materials with interesting or potentially useful physical characteristics, such as magnetic, optical, structural or ...

Theoretical chemistry seeks to provide theories and explanations for chemical observations whilst also posing questions to be answered by future experiments. Playing a key role in physical chemistry, ...

This year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists — Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi — for the ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the ...