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 ...

The willingness of the 4f orbitals of lanthanide metals to participate in chemical reactions is as rare as their presence in ...

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 ...

But molecules are “graph structures,” composed of atoms and bonds with no particular ordering, making them difficult to encode as sequential text. On the other hand, powerful graph-based AI models ...

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

Supercritical water also shows promise as an environmentally friendly solvent for industrial processes such as catalysis, and ...

Energy is required to break a covalent bond between two atoms to overcome the attractive force. Bond breaking is an endothermic process. The opposite is true if we want to make new bonds.