For the first time, researchers have managed to isolate and directly observe individual oxygen atoms inside liquid water, ...

Experimental particle physicists working at the MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory have found ...

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Scientists in China have performed an experiment first proposed by Albert Einstein almost a century ago when he sought to ...

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

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 ...

Neutrinos may be nearly invisible, but they play a starring role in the Universe. Long-standing anomalies had hinted at a ...

A novel compact Raman platform has demonstrated the ability to distinguish tumour tissue from healthy tissue with markedly ...

Space mining tech and robotic prospecting are unlocking extraterrestrial resources, reshaping future energy, manufacturing, ...

Scientists have observed Shapiro steps for the first time in ultracold atoms, realizing an atomic Josephson junction driven ...

Superconductors promise loss-free electricity, but most only work at extreme cold. Hydrogen-rich materials changed that—yet their inner workings remained hidden because they only exist under enormous ...

Despite the similarities, Langmuir emphasised that this pump was fundamentally different from Gaede’s; the cold walls of the ...