What color is an atom? Since atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light, we can’t see them directly - but they still interact with light in ways that create color. Discover how atomic ...

With the growing demand for more efficient and sustainable chemical processes, single-atom catalysts (SACs) have become a research hotspot due to their high atomic utilization and unique catalytic ...

A novel experiment has revealed a phenomenon called the Bohr–Weisskopf effect in a pear-shaped nucleus in a molecule for the ...

The chains of amino acids that make up proteins are critical to every form of life. The complex ways that these proteins fold ...

Researchers are exploring MXenes, 2D materials that could transform air into ammonia for cleaner fertilizers and fuels. Their ...

Only one side of a silver crystal has the right structure to trigger ice formation, revealing how these particles help clouds ...

SDSC provides high-performance computing and data infrastructure that support researchers doing molecular modeling and ...

Scientists find that natural iron minerals can speed up the breakdown of toxic plastic additives in the environment.

Materials scientists can learn a lot about a sample material by shooting lasers at it. With nonlinear optical microscopy—a specialized imaging technique that looks for a change in the color of intense ...

Researchers uncovered how soft regions in amorphous silicon mix order and disorder, offering new insights for designing stronger amorphous materials. Persistence diagram obtained from the structure of ...