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Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of ...

Our hero Linus — a genetically modified rat — has knowledge of chemistry and a thirst for adventure ... Your job is to collect a certain number of different atoms to make molecules that will help him ...

For the first time, atoms of the metal indium have been chilled to temperatures a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, a state where strange quantum phenomena begin to appear ...

Recently, researchers at the Technion Faculty of Physics in Israel achieved a controlled transfer of atoms from one place to another via quantum tunneling between optical tweezers. “This is the ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE chemistry students studying early ideas about atoms, the structure of the atom, atomic number and mass number. If you struggled with the quiz ...

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Scientists have created a catalyst for hydrogen generation from ammonia that becomes more active with time, and by counting atoms revealed changes that boost the catalyst's performance.