Chemistry and physics are combining forces at Columbia, and it's leaving everyone frustrated—in a good way. New work, ...

Penn State researchers have uncovered a surprising twist in a foundational chemical reaction known as oxidative addition.

A team of chemists and physicists at Columbia University have discovered that atomic orbitals, not just a material's ...

Speeding up chemical reactions is key to improving industrial processes or mitigating unwanted or harmful waste. Realizing these improvements requires that chemists design around documented reaction ...

Allmendinger, T. (2025) A Planar Atom Model of Helium Based on Well-Defined Electron Trajectories. Journal of Applied ...

Most metals look silvery. Gold looks golden. (But remember, “all that glitters is not gold”.) The reason isn’t myth or magic: ...

While quantum mechanics explains the small-scale, low-energy behavior of electrons, relativity becomes important when those same electrons move fast enough for strange effects like spin-orbit coupling ...

The calculations revealed that at low strains, the dominant conduction channel formed by s-orbital electrons remained stable. However, as strain increased beyond about 10 percent, changes emerged in ...

"God does not play dice." This famous remark by Albert Einstein critiqued the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics. Paradoxically, his theory of relativity has become an essential tool for ...