Researchers at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics have designed a rhodium catalyst whose microenvironment is tuned by both sulfur and phosphine ligands, based on an industrial single-site ...

Sulfur, long feared as a "poison" that shuts down precious metal catalysts, can actually help them work better when ...

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The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

Scientists unveil a solid electrolyte that moves lithium as fast as liquids, promising safer, fast-charging batteries.

Earth's inner core may be layered like an onion, with silicon and carbon creating distinct zones that explain seismic wave ...

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Earth’s inner core has long challenged researchers because seismic waves do not move through it uniformly. Compressional waves generated by earthquakes travel roughly 3 to 4 percent faster along Earth ...

Towards the end of Philip Ball’s marvellous book on the history of alchemy he tells the story of pioneering nuclear physicist ...

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

Private companies are jumping into the race to deploy particles to the atmosphere to reduce global warming, prompting ...

Science once forced judges to smell other people's trumps to find out the answer to whose smelled the worst - men's or women's On average, humans fart up to 23 times a day, but not all farts are ...