Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

You may have noticed that the rock formations are very different colors. The rock formations on the left are from Red Rock State Park in Texas, and on the right is El Capitan Mountain in Yosemite ...

A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image released July 7, 2012, shows U Camelopardalis, a star nearing the end of its life located in the constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), near the North ...

Human history is often told through kings, empires and machines, but a single reactive metal quietly underpins much of that ...

Scripps Research chemist Matthew Disney, PhD, and colleagues have created drug-like compounds that, in human cell studies, bind and destroy the pandemic coronavirus' so-called "frameshifting element" ...

Inorganic elements and their compounds are fundamental to medical biochemistry, serving as essential cofactors in enzymatic reactions, regulators of cellular signalling and metabolism, and ...

Deep in the dark spaces between stars, astronomers have spotted a sulfur-bearing ring that should not be there, at least not ...

The SCTE conferences allow every 2 years to report new discoveries in chemistry and solid state physics of compounds and materials based on d and f electron elements. Several axes are discussed such ...

Scientists have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule which may have been used to build other organic molecules, including some used by life. The discovery validates theories ...

This clip shows how carbon is made up from sub-atomic particles. Electron shells are mentioned. Two extra neutrons are added to make an unstable isotope which explodes at the end. This clip could be ...