Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still of a slowed-down chemical reaction taken with a quantum computer. For the first time, scientists have directly observed a ...

Albert Einstein once said, "I see my life in terms of music." Perhaps inspired by his words, scientists at the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity (CSC), within the Institute for Basic Science ...

Researchers in Belgium have unveiled a striking chemical reaction in which ripples along a frozen reaction front resemble the ...

As Percy Julian knew only too well, the synthesis of a chemical compound found in nature is a highly complicated process that can take years of research and experimentation. Beginning with a readily ...

Exactly how non-living molecules sparked into life is one of the most puzzling mysteries of science. Now scientists at Scripps Research have discovered a new set of chemical reactions that can produce ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Scientists have long suspected that a quantum phenomenon might play a role in photosynthesis and other chemical reactions of nature, but don’t know for sure because such a ...

Researchers demonstrate a chemical reaction produced through an intermediary created by a separate chemical reaction, findings that could impact environmental remediation and fuel production. A ...