JWST detects earliest complex molecules in the Universe in cosmic smoke
Webb discovered organic molecules in the most distant galaxy found to date.
Tag: molecule
What are the strong chemical bonds?
They really tie the room together.
There may be over a million genetic molecules — DNA is just one of them
The findings may help answer how the first primitive creatures appeared on Earth.
Coldest chemical reaction reveals intermediate molecules in slow motion
Scientists have used a complex setup that allowed them to image intermediate chemical compounds that typically last only a thousandth ...
Comet 67P harbors oxygen molecules as old as the Solar System
I wonder if it smells stale.
Tightest molecular knot could lead to better, stronger materials
It was made from strands made of over 190 atoms coiled around a triple loop which crosses itself eight times.
Molecules on your mobile phone say a lot about your lifestyle
Everything you touch leaves behind a trace.
Water squeezed in a new state: not liquid, nor solid or gas. Just pure quantum weirdness
Physicists have crammed water inside extremely small cracks about ten-billionth of a metre and found the molecules entered a never ...
Big Surprise: Rosetta finds primordial oxygen on a comet
For the first time, astronomers have detected primordial oxygen gassing out from a comet
Scientists cool molecules just a hair over absolute zero (1,000,000 times colder than space)
In a breakthrough moment, researchers at MIT successfully cooled sodium potassium gas molecules (NaK) near absolute zero. At this temperature, ...
Sandwiching water between graphene makes square ice crystals at room temperature
In a most unexpected find, the same University of Manchester team that isolated graphene for the first time in 2003 ...
Why octupus arms never get entangled
Photo: c4dcafe.com Roboticists and mechanical engineers hold octopuses to great respect and admiration because of their many skills, like great ...
Sending a text message using Vodka molecules – the first continuous molecular communication
In nature, organisms communicate in various ways, be it through acoustic or biological signals. Insects, for instance, communicate and relay ...
Harvard and MIT scientists create photon molecules
Photons and molecules Mikhail Lukin - image via Harvard. Scientists managed to 'trick' photons (the elementary particles of light and ...
Intelligent molecules that fold and change shape demonstrated for the first time
The new results demonstrate at the single-molecule level how solvent-induced collapse of an environmentally responsive copolymer modulates surface adhesion forces ...
IBM images electric charge distribution in a SINGLE molecule – world’s first!
Part of a the recent slew of revolutionary technological and scientific novelties coming off IBM's research and development lab, the company has ...
5th grader discovers new molecule, gets co-author status
Kenneth Boehr was doing the usual chemistry class, not expecting more than you would from any other ten year old ...
Researchers find marijuana spreads and prolongs pain
We've all endured some kind of physical pain, more or less intense. When you hit your finger while hammering, for ...
Meet the magnetic superatoms
Virginia Commonwealth University managed to discover what they have called a 'magnetic superatom', a stable cluster of atoms that can ...