Covalent bonding is a widely understood phenomenon that joins the atoms of a molecule by a shared electron pair. But in ...

Through the collaborative research efforts as part of the Superfund Research Program (SRP), scientists from Rice University and Baylor College of ...

Researchers have developed a sustainable catalyst that increases its activity during use while converting carbon dioxide (CO2) into valuable products. This discovery offers a blueprint for designing ...

Rice University scientists and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have demonstrated a new method for ...

In a new study published in Nature, University of Missouri researchers have, for the first time, revealed the specific shape ...

This compound is a phosphorus congener (a variant of a common chemical structure ... the phosphorus atom in the structure, which is a key feature of polyaromatic hydrocarbons.

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Muon spin rotation ( SR) spectroscopy is a powerful technique used to study the behavior of materials at the atomic level. In this study, researchers employed SR to examine phosphorus-containing ...

When introduced into a material, muons interact with local magnetic fields, providing unique insights into the material’s structure and ... highlighting the molecule's high reactivity.

Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and breathable oxygen by mimicking a chemical reaction in plants. The ...

Microbe-derived indoles modulate anxiety and neuronal excitability in the amygdala of germ-free (GF) male mice. These findings demonstrate a molecular mechanism by which microbes tune anxiety-related ...