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Ultrafast X-rays capture chemistry unfolding atom by atom

Ultrafast X-rays revealed how a molecule converts absorbed light into motion in just trillionths of a second. Individual ...

Dynamic 'breathing' in nanopore structures can maximize efficiency of molecule separation and diffusion

Nanoporous material-based separation technology is vital in many applications because it can precisely distinguish between ...

Water's local asymmetry drives proton hopping between molecules, simulations reveal

Complex simulations—the most intricate of their kind to date—carried out by an international research team led by scientists ...

Membrane nanostructures reshape in water, revealing route to better ion transport

Next-generation energy devices like fuel cells and water electrolyzers depend on ion-exchange membranes that allow only water ...
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A microwave oven works because water molecules have a slight positive and negative end — the magnetron flips an electric field 2.45 billion times a second, and the mol…

The familiar hum of a microwave oven hides a small piece of quantum-era engineering: a wartime radar tube, a resonant metal ...

Twisted laser light distinguishes mirror-image molecules by their fragment counts

Many molecules exist in two mirror-image forms—like left and right hands—that look identical but can behave very differently, ...
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A “mirror” molecule can starve cancer cells without harming healthy cells

Scientists have discovered that a rare “mirror-image” version of the amino acid cysteine can dramatically slow the growth of certain cancers while leaving healthy cells largely untouched. Unlike most ...