THIS little handbook, evidently the outcome of long experience in teaching young students, is primarily intended for science masters in secondary schools. It includes a well-selected and well-arranged ...

Over the years, computer chips have gotten smaller thanks to advances in materials science and manufacturing technologies. This march of progress, the doubling of transistors on a microprocessor ...

Molecular structure of the new 20-electron ferrocene derivative, highlighting nitrogen (blue), iron (orange), hydrogen (green), and carbon (grey) atoms. Credit: Modified from Nature Communications ...

THOSE chemists whose memories can carry them back for a period of about half a century will have experienced several phases in the development of the science which, at their respective periods, were ...

This interactive lecture demonstration will take the students on a journey through time to explore the discoveries of some of history's most famous chemists. Through comedy, intellectual discussion, ...

A discovery about Saturn's moon Titan has challenged what scientists thought was a basic rule of chemistry. There, in the extreme cold, some supposedly fundamentally incompatible molecules may combine ...

For over a century, the well-known 18-electron rule has guided the field of organometallic chemistry. Now, researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) have successfully ...