Now, a team of researchers from Hokkaido University has isolated a compound in which a single electron is shared between two carbon atoms in a remarkably stable covalent bond, known as a sigma bond.

With his new book, Bruce Luyendyk has created a whole new genre — the geothriller. Mighty Bad Land follows the longtime UC Santa Barbara researcher on his 1989 expedition to Antarctica, a gritty ...

IN 1897, Prof. J. J. Thomson, working in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge, discovered that cathode rays consist of negatively charged particles (electrons, as they afterwards came to be known ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. A particularly exciting find was a Book of the Dead papyrus scroll ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the game for drug discovery and repurposing. There are currently more than 100 drugs in the AI drug discovery pipeline and numerous more that are making their ...

The discovery of plasmon polaritons on a single electron is another step towards understanding the complex nature of the quantum world. It not only expands our knowledge of the fundamental properties ...

Quantum materials: Discovered new state of matter with chiral properties . Università Ca' Foscari Venezia. Journal Nature DOI 10.1038/s41586-024-07033-8 ...

THE fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the electron by Sir J. J. Thomson will occur next year. To mark this jubilee and to demonstrate the tremendous influence such an advance in pure ...