Imagine a catalyst so small that its active ingredient is a single atom, isolated and anchored to a surface like a jewel in a ...

Oxygen vacancies—tiny voids where an oxygen atom is missing from a metal oxide lattice—have long been suspected as the true engines of many industrial catalytic reactions. Yet proving exactly whe ...

Back in high school, "I chose chemistry because I'm not good at physics with all its formulas." some people might say.However ...

If your doctor recommended you take iron supplements based on blood work, but you’re still dragging through your days, a few factors could be keeping that iron from actually getting absorbed into the ...

The sun slips below the horizon, washing the sky in color. A powerful strain of music swells and fills a concert hall. For many people these are delightful experiences. For others, they’re emotional, ...

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...

One of physicists’ foundational assumptions is that atoms aren’t unique—if two atoms have the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons, they will look and act exactly alike. This belief is ...

The Ariel Motor Company has always put performance first, and its latest iteration of the iconic Atom turns the volume way up. Officially known as the Ariel Atom 4RR, the newest member of the Atom ...

Aaron Rossini of Iowa State and Ames National Laboratory with the nuclear magnetic resonance instrument in his Hach Hall lab. Iowa State University/Christopher Gannon. Iowa State's Aaron Rossini has ...

Probing vibrations at the single-molecule level is essential for achieving bond-specific chemical control in realistic heterogeneous environments. Here, we introduce a new measurement scheme that ...

Scientists are tackling a critical challenge in the advancement of quantum technologies: creating robust, wafer-scale vacuum cells essential for practical atomic clocks and information processing ...