Physicists Stunned: Lead-208’s Shape Just Broke a Fundamental Rule of Nuclear Physics
For decades, scientists believed that lead-208, a "doubly magic" and highly stable atomic nucleus, was perfectly spherical.
Only a Few Grams of This Element Exist—and Scientists Have Used It to Break the Rules of the Periodic Table
More than 75 years after its initial discovery, scientists have created an organometallic molecule containing the ...
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Probing metazoan polyphosphate biology using Drosophila reveals novel and conserved polyP functions
Polyphosphate (polyP) exists in all life forms; however, its biological functions in metazoans are understudied. Here, we explored Drosophila as the first genetic model to explore polyP biology in ...
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Scientists turn light into a 'supersolid' for the 1st time ever: What that means, and why it matters
For the first time, researchers transformed light into a quantum crystalline structure to create a "supersolid" that's both solid and liquid at the same time. Here’s what that means, and why it's such ...
A Radioactive Molecule That Shouldn’t Exist – But Scientists Made It Happen
A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...
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From the periodic table to the food we eat: Chemistry in the Kitchen draws students in
For professor of chemistry and physics Richard Zare, the goal for CHEM 29N: Chemistry in the Kitchen is not to make students ...
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Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reveals Hidden Mechanics of DNA Replication, Sheds New Light on Cancer Target
MSK researchers shed new light on G-quadruplexes, a type of secondary DNA structure that has attracted attention as a ...
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Review on the Structure–Property Relationship of Lignocellulosic Materials Measured by Atomic Force Microscopy
Trees and plants in general have evolved to a system of optimal combination of functional and structural performance in a hierarchical structure starting from different ... processing and wood ...
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New insights into the structure of atomic nuclei
Together with new calculations of the structure of atomic nuclei, theoretical physicists from the Technical University of Darmstadt and Leibniz University Hannover were able to show that measurements ...