Virtual particles: How physicists' clever bookkeeping trick could underlie reality

A clever mathematical tool known as virtual particles unlocks the strange and mysterious inner workings of subatomic ...
ZME Science

Scientists witness the tiniest water droplet forming out of oxygen and hydrogen atoms in real-time

In a quiet lab at Northwestern University, a team of scientists peered into a high-powered microscope, holding their breath. What they saw was something no human had ever witnessed: the moment ...
The Debrief

James Webb Space Telescope Detects “Sign of Life” Molecule Phosphine on a Brown Dwarf 54 Light Years From Earth

Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected the "sign of life molecule" phosphine in the atmosphere of a ...

New imaging system maps retinal oxygen in unprecedented detail

The retina consumes oxygen at one of the highest rates of any tissue in the body, and disruptions in its oxygen supply are ...

Saturn's moon Enceladus is shooting out organic molecules that could help create life

The discovery strengthens the case for a new mission to orbit and land on Enceladus and search for evidence of life.
C&EN

Pyrolysis-Free Oxygen Reduction Reaction (ORR) Electrocatalysts Composed of Unimolecular Layer Metal Azaphthalocyanines Adsorbed onto Carbon Materials

Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), 2-1-1, Katahira, Aoba-Ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan AZUL Energy Inc., 1-9-1, Ichiban-Cho, Aoba-Ku, Sendai 980-0811, Japan Institute of ...
C&EN

The Surface Chemistry of Au(111) and Au(100) Electrodes under Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Potentials

Oxygen electrochemistry plays a central role in various sustainable energy solutions, but the factors controlling the electrocatalytic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction ...