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Scientists just mapped platinum atoms — and it could transform catalysis forever
A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration between ...
Resonant frequencies reveal a map for optimizing single-atom catalysts
Using nuclear magnetic resonance, researchers at ETH Zurich have studied the atomic environments of single platinum atoms in ...
This chemical reaction feeds 3.5 billion people. Here’s why it has to stop
The process became the world’s main source of nitrogen for fertiliser and was dubbed the “reaction that fed the world”. A ...
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"Uncharted Waters": Large Hadron Collider Begins Colliding Oxygen For The First Time
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has begun its first-ever collisions of oxygen ions, in the latest attempt to understand the ...
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Astronomers Find Direct Evidence Of Elusive Double-Detonation Supernovae
White Dwarf Discovery Could Transform How Scientists Measure the Universe In A Nutshell Astronomers found direct evidence ...
New evidence that some supernovae may be a “double detonation”
In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring ...