In a small manganese oxide cluster, teams from HZB and HU Berlin have discovered a particularly exciting compound: two high-spin manganese centers in two very different oxidation states. This complex ...

An international research collaboration has overturned the long-standing belief that the atomic nucleus of lead-208 is perfectly spherical. The discovery challenges fundamental assumptions about ...

The Penn State Alumni Association recently won the Centre County Historical Society’s President’s Award for the historical ...

Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

The US Arctic Research Commission and the UAF Geophysical Institute hosted a workshop on the energy potential of geologic ...

The periodic table organizes chemical elements based on atomic weight, electron configurations, and chemical properties, ...

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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, National Biomedical Imaging Center, College of Chemistry ...

A new stage had opened in the arms race and progress was swift. The American bomb was successfully tested at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific in 1952 and the USSR tested its first hydrogen bomb a year ...

School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Astbury Centre, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, U ...