Urea reacts extremely quickly under the conditions that existed when our planet was newly formed. This new insight furthers our understanding of how life on Earth might have begun. Researchers from ...

Valence electrons, located in the outermost shell of an atom, play an important role in driving chemical reactions and forming bonds with other atoms. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

How can we use some of the world's brightest and strongest sources of synchrotron light to better understand the catalysts that speed up chemical reactions? Catalysts reduce the energy needed to make ...

Scientists used an ultrafast X-ray laser to follow the impact of a single electron moving within a molecule during an entire chemical reaction. (Nanowerk News) Valence electrons, located in the ...

For today’s episode of For Science, we explore how fat molecules change and scatter due to different chemical reactions. Most see milk as just liquid, but in actuality, it consists of, yes, a lot of ...

Safe and effective high explosives are critical to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) mission of stockpile stewardship. It is relatively simple to study the composition of such material ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Geneva have developed a new method that allows them to observe chemical reactions taking place in liquids at extremely high temporal resolution. This ...