New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the ...

Such molecules would be suited to acting as quantum bits, or qubits, the basic unit of information in quantum systems. But ...

This attraction pulls the atoms together and the electrons are shared by both atoms. The atoms bond because there is a strong enough attraction in both directions and room for the electrons in the ...

The famous carbon allotrope can catalyse the formation of hydrogen molecules in cold interstellar environments ...

Two materials physicists at The University of Sydney have found a possible explanation for the huge amount of molecular ...

Each atom then has a complete outer shell of electrons. The slideshow shows how a covalent bond forms between a hydrogen atom and a chlorine atom, making hydrogen chloride. A simple molecule ...

Catalytic conversion of waste CO2 into value-added fuels and chemicals offers unprecedented opportunities for both ...