When a singer belts out a tune while a guitar player strums along, sound waves travel through the air, driving collective oscillations of the molecules within. Meanwhile, at the quantum level, ...

For two decades, physicists have predicted the existence of a remarkable family of exotic molecules: giant atoms bound to ...

Gold has survived in tombs, shipwrecks and museum cases with a stubborn glitter that other metals cannot match. While iron ...

Research crystalized at the University of Iowa has created a way to capture water from the atmosphere that, if found to be scalable and confirmed as safe, could help solve problems of water scarcity ...

Summer is here, and that means it is barbecue season for many people in the U.S. I am a chemist who studies compounds found in nature, and I am also a lover of food – including barbecue. Cooking on a ...

Metals like copper oxidize — reacting with oxygen in the air — but gold doesn’t, thanks to a quick switch in atom arrangement ...

Scientists have uncovered a strange hidden structure formed during the creation of metallocenes, a class of sandwich-like ...

Gold is the most noble of all known metals – it doesn't react readily with substances like the oxygen that bonds with atoms ...

Electron-beam cuts make twisted graphene rebuild itself into carbon nanotubes, arrays, and Y-junctions through controlled ...

Gold’s characteristic glow famously doesn’t fade for thousands of years—and scientists have finally found the molecular trick ...

Gold doesn’t tarnish like similar metals do. A new paper says that the key is the intricate “herringbone” pattern of its ...

Scientists have created a type of glass capable of trapping gases using an ancient technique that could revolutionize carbon ...