In a step toward making ultra-bright X-ray sources more widely available, an international collaboration led by the ...

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic explains how relatively few heat-trapping molecules can have a planetary ...

Lots of people are excited about the idea of using plants to help us draw down some of the excess carbon dioxide we've been pumping into the atmosphere. It would be nice to think that we could ...

Anchoring single metal atoms on ultrathin supports improves catalyst efficiency and stability, making hydrogen production ...

In adamantane, the carbon atoms are in the right diamond-like arrangement, but each carbon is capped with hydrogen atoms. As ...

At first glance, the Butterfly Nebula looks like a glowing insect pinned against the backdrop of space. Officially known as ...

Waves don’t just shape oceans or ripple across a pond. They also shape the building blocks of our universe—light, sound, and even the tiny vibrations inside atoms and molecules. These vibrations, ...

Yale scientists have developed a catalyst-free, energy-efficient pyrolysis reactor that converts plastic waste into usable ...

A new calculation shows how five atoms interact in the Efimov effect. It marks a major leap in quantum physics. Matter behaves weirdly at the quantum scale, one of the strangest examples being the ...

Recently, researchers from Yale University may have made a dent in that inefficiency. They successfully tested a novel way to ...

Dr. McAdams, a physicist at Stanford, was struck by the way biologists drew figures filled with arrows to show how different ...

Think of a particle, like an electron, not as a pinpoint location, but as a wave. This wave, called a wave packet, spreads ...