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For the first time, an international team of physicists has successfully harnessed a rare orbital transition in atoms of ...

In biology, defects are generally bad. But in materials science, defects can be intentionally tuned to give materials useful ...

I read with great interest the article by Katherine Bourzac “Divining the Mysteries of the Atomic Nucleus” in the Jan. 29, 2024, issue of C&EN (page 30). Curious readers might like to know that an ...

Researchers at The University of Manchester have built a machine-learning model that prevents simulated molecules from flying ...

Researchers have visualized atoms in motion just before a radiation-driven decay process occurs, revealing a surprisingly ...