Researchers at Leipzig University and TU Dresden have succeeded in developing biological switches that can selectively turn ion channels on and off using light pulses. Initial applications show that ...

Associate Professor Yuichiro Matsushita of Materials and Structures Laboratory, Institute of Science Tokyo, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Associate ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures ...

Can a small lump of metal be in a quantum state that extends over distant locations? A research team at the University of Vienna answers this question with a resounding yes. In the journal Nature, ...

Different atoms and ions possess characteristic energy levels. Like a fingerprint, they are unique for each species. Among ...

Findings Solve Decades-Old Mystery About What’s Inside Uranus And Neptune In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a strange form ...

Rich and Suter diagrams are a very useful tool to explain the electron configurations of all transition elements, and in particular, the s 1 and s 0 configurations of the elements Cr, Cu, Nb, Mo, Ru, ...

Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, † Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, and ‡ Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States Article Views are ...

Abstract: Theories for electron capture from inner shells by fully stripped ions are compared with experiments for K-shell vacancy production, The recently developed theory goes beyond the Oppenheimer ...