Browsing: Chemistry

Nobel Prize Committee announces Chemistry Prize winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in StockholmJonathan Knackstrand/AFP via Getty Images The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry…

Covalent bonds can contain 2, 4, 6, 8 electrons, or just 1 electron.Simone N/Shutterstock Chemists rarely create new kinds of chemical bonds, but they’ve done it:…

Common eastern bumblebee collecting nectarNature Photo Library/Alamy In the first study of its kind, scientists have found that feeding honeybees small pieces of absorbent hydrogel increases…

Dual potential energy well with quantum wave functions on a ladder of different energy levelsN.E. Frattini et al. The 135-year-old laws of chemistry are getting a…

A replica of the “Welcome Stranger,” a 100 kg gold nugget discovered in Australia in 1869.Ian Dagnall/Alamy Earthquakes can create electric fields that attract gold dissolved…

Farmers rely on ammonia to fertilize their crops.Patty Calfee/Getty Images The environmentally friendly technology uses multi-chamber chemical reactors to turn wastewater into ammonia and harmless by-products.…

When mixed with hydrogel, protein-based drugs can remain effective for longer at higher temperatures.Shutterstock/Renko Alex Many medicines need to be kept refrigerated or they become ineffective,…

Jacqueline Gates of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory isolating livermorium atoms.Marilyn Sargent/Berkeley Lab 2024 Regents of the University of California The third heaviest element in the universe…