In a groundbreaking achievement, physicists have successfully peered inside the nucleus of a molecule using electrons as a ...

What makes some plastics stick to metal without any glue? Osaka Metropolitan University scientists have peered into the ...

Kanazawa University, have used three-dimensional atomic force microscopy (AFM) and molecular dynamics simulations to ...

A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 41 Saito explains that selenium’s large size allows overlapping σ orbitals from the six atoms to create aromaticity. The phenylselenyl groups ...

Guest writer Dr Kun-Yu Wang describes how the development of a tunable MOF illustrates chemistry's potential in mechanical ...

Chemistry students the world over are familiar with covalent bonds and hydrogen bonds. Now a study has revealed a strange variety of bond that acts like a hybrid of the two. Its properties raise ...

You might want to leave the lights on tonight; scientists say ghosts can exist. Theorists predict conditions to create a so-called ghost molecule—a single atom with electron density that resembles ...

Scientists recently created a never-before-seen four-atom molecule — the coldest of its kind ever made. Researchers created the oddball molecule — a strange configuration of sodium-potassium with an ...