Chemists have achieved a new feat in the realm of chemical design and synthesis: They've helped create the first example of a synthetic molecule, with an asymmetric oxygen atom as its centerpiece ...

A team of chemists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has succeeded in pulling an oxygen atom from a molecule and replacing it with a nitrogen atom. In their study ...

A single molecule can trigger and tune the Kondo effect, challenging long-held physics assumptions and offering new paths for molecular electronics and quantum devices.

HeH⁺, formed when a neutral helium atom captures an ionized hydrogen nucleus, is the start of a chain of chemical reactions that eventually produce molecular hydrogen (H₂) the most populous ...

A view inside the trapped-ion quantum computer that carried out a first-of-its-kind simulation of molecular chemistry. A single atom has performed the first full quantum simulations of how certain ...

By measuring an 11-atom molecule with a stunningly powerful X-ray laser, researchers have seen the way its atoms make slight, synchronised movements, even when they should be standing still ...

The first molecule created this way is thought to be helium hydride ion (HeH+), formed from a neutral helium atom and ionised hydrogen. Helium hydride’s origin also marked the beginning of a chain ...