The star give off sufficient ultraviolet (UV) light could kick-start life on their orbiting planets in the same way it likely developed on Earth, where the UV light powers a series of chemical ...

A team of physicists has pulled off a visual trick that sounds like stage magic: they made a flash of light vanish inside a ...

Water is clear and colorless and has many interesting and useful characteristics. There are other liquids that are also clear and colorless but have properties very different from water. In this ...

Liquid metals can spontaneously bulge, protrude, branch and slither in response to certain ions in their environment. This happens due to the Marangoni effect, which starts with uneven changes in the ...

Light can act like waves and particles, depending on the experiment you use to observe. It can also be turned into a liquid state in extreme condition such as at absolute zero degree environment. For ...

Elizabeth Sylvester took a look through a microscope and was surprised to see her sample staring back at her. Sylvester, a research associate in Christina Tang’s lab at Virginia Commonwealth ...

The application of ionic liquids in the field of actinide and lanthanide chemistry has attracted considerable attention due to their unique properties, such as low volatility, enhanced thermal ...

Researchers use liquid metal to create atom-thick 2-D never before seen in nature. The research could transform how we do chemistry and could also be applied to enhance data storage and make faster ...

Power plants are engineered with precision down to the smallest detail, yet one critical variable is often considered too late in the process: water chemistry. When it’s considered early in design rat ...

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