Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

THE Faraday Lecture to the Chemical Society was given at the Royal Institution on February 12 by Lord Rutherford. The title was “Radioactivity and Atomic Structure”; but Lord Rutherford, rightly, was ...

Using atomic-scale defects in diamond, researchers in China have gained unprecedented insights into the complex chemical ...

Traditional chemistry textbooks present a tidy picture: Atoms in molecules occupy fixed positions, connected by rigid rods. A molecule such as formic acid (methanoic acid, HCOOH) is imagined as ...