“At low temperatures, models of reactivity must include the effects of the permanent electric dipoles and quadrupole moments ...

The technology, called Single-Molecule Atomic-Resolution Time-resolved Electron Microscopy (SMART-EM for short), lets scientists observe individual atoms and molecules as they interact during chemical ...

The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible threat to the food we eat ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found ... contain chains of 11-13 carbon atoms, while non-biological fatty ...

The molecules — hydrocarbon strings of 10, 11 and 12 carbon atoms called decane, undecane, and dodecane — were detected by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument. No stone unturned ...

The longest organic molecules identified to date on Mars have recently been detected. These long carbon chains, containing up to 12 consecutive carbon atoms, could exhibit features similar to the ...

Because materials can be made up of lots of different kinds of atoms and molecules, with different bonds between them, the collective disturbances take on many forms, becoming a zoo of possible ...

The model is trained to predict the fingerprint of a molecule from its spectrum and then retrieves the most similar molecules from a set of candidates based on fingerprint similarity. For more ...

All the atoms and light in the universe together make up less than five percent of the total contents of the cosmos. The rest is composed of dark matter and dark energy, which are invisible but ...