With the help of the world's most powerful X-ray laser, a research team has achieved an important breakthrough: Using the example of the pharmaceutically active substance 2-thiouracil, they applied a ...

Imagine building a Lego tower with perfectly aligned blocks. Each block represents an atom in a tiny crystal, known as a ...

Animals, plants and many other living organisms inhale oxygen to "burn" (oxidize) compounds like sugar into CO2 and water—a ...

Now, engineers have discovered that quantum materials just a single atom thick can do the job with ... it naturally forms sulfur vacancies during its production, which creates a high density ...

Argonne researchers have shown that they can use light to temporarily alter the crystal symmetry within lead sulfide quantum dots. This process reduces the off-centering of lead atoms and affects the ...

For the first time, scientists have captured how complex molecules change shape when exposed to UV light—an ultra-fast process previously impossible to observe. An international team of researchers ...

Scientists at Goethe University uncover how the oldest enzyme in cellular respiration functions – opening the door to ...

The ancient reactions an MIT chemist is investigating could provide the key to developing new methods that can extract vast amounts of carbon from our atmosphere.

Engineers from United States have discovered that just single atom thick quantum materials ... during its production the material itself forms sulfur vacancies – which results in high density ...

To help find solutions to the planet's climate crisis, MIT Associate Professor Daniel Suess is looking to Earth's ancient ...