Splitting water: How order and disorder direct chemical reactivity

In nature, the behavior of systems—whether large or small—is always governed by a few fundamental principles. For instance, ...
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UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.

Chemists discover new way of breaking down climate-damaging 'laughing gas'

"Defying climate change calls for new approaches in breaking down greenhouse gases," Professor Jan Paradies of Paderborn ...

Three University of California scientists win Nobel Prize in Physics for quantum computing advances

It is the 119th time the prize has been awarded. Last year, artificial intelligence pioneers John Hopfield and Geoffrey ...