The cuticle is your hair’s protective outer layer, and when it’s healthy, it’s smooth and flat. Damage can lift some of the ...

Computational analysis provides new insights into silk's mechanical properties that was unavailable experimentally ...

In combination with the triple bond, this is about as uncomfortable as it gets for boron, requiring very special conditions,” ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, have shed light on the structure of supercritical water. In this state, which ...

Scientists at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna, have unveiled an innovative approach for synthesizing azaparacyclophanes (APCs), a class of highly advanced ring-shaped ...

Chemical bonding refers to the attraction between atoms and can come in several different types with varying strength. It allows the formation of substances with more than one atomic component and ...

Researchers have synthesised a triple bond between carbon and boron for the first time. This discovery could help chemists ...

Scientists in Germany have achieved something never seen before: creating a stable boron-carbon triple bond. While triple ...

Scientists at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Vienna, have unveiled an innovative approach for synthesizing ...

In the water molecule, the oxygen and hydrogen atoms share electrons in covalent bonds. There are a total of 10 protons and 10 electrons, so the water molecule is neutral. The electron cloud model ...

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 ...

An international team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new method for analyzing actinides. The method provides unique insights into the electronic ...