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When we first learn about atoms, we learn that the simplest has one electron buzzing around one proton, aka hydrogen. But it ...

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Rumors are circulating that laboratories in China can produce gold. Here's how gold is made in labs, as we know it.

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

The chemical is pulsing deep within the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, in a compound that has 13 atoms.

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In a cavernous tunnel beneath the French–Swiss border, physicists have briefly recreated conditions that existed microseconds ...

Researchers at UNICAMP enhance low-cost catalysts for hydrogen production by engineering structural defects, improving efficiency in oxygen evolution reactions.

Turning lead into gold famously used to be the goal of ancient alchemists, but their modern counterparts have actually managed the feat, though it wasn't easy.