Researchers have uncovered how atoms subtly rearrange themselves for up to a trillionth of a second before releasing ...

A cluster of 7,000 sodium atoms has just been coaxed into behaving as a single, ghostly wave, stretching quantum weirdness into a realm that starts to look uncomfortably like everyday matter. Instead ...

Three decades ago, physicists created a curious quantum state by controlling a collection of individual atoms using light and magnetic fields 1. By cooling this gas-like group of atoms to ultracold ...

Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking chemical bonds. The rules governing how these bonds, which hold atoms together in ...

UCLA chemists proved that some of chemistry’s oldest rules can be broken—and new molecules emerge when they are.

Could buckyballs be holding new quantum mysteries, which unlock their potential for quantum information science? That’s what theoretical physicist Timur Tscherbul from the University of Nevada, Reno ...

Electronics keep shrinking, but silicon is starting to run into physical limits. To go smaller, researchers are turning to something far tinier than any transistor on a chip: single molecules that act ...

Scientists use AI to generate designs of potential new molecules, a process that is 10 times faster and more precise.

UCLA researchers have violated Bredt’s rule, a century-old principle of organic chemistry, challenging our understanding of molecular shapes.

Fundamental breakthroughs in the natural sciences are rare. Progress is usually made in small steps, with knowledge slowly accumulating as more pieces of the puzzle fall into place. Now, however, ...

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