Relativistic Quantum Chemistry (1): Why is Relativity Necessary for Heavy Elements?

In our series so far, we have progressed from the Hartree-Fock (HF) method to density functional theory (DFT), and further to ...

Gemini's name sounds like an element, so I made it into a card game on my own

"After Argon comes Carbon."I wonder if anyone opened the periodic table after hearing that.Argon is atomic number 18. Carbon ...
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Growing Push in Iran to Develop Nuclear Weapons

A growing number of Iranian officials, lawmakers and influential clerics are openly advocating the development of nuclear ...
scienceandculture

How Small Became Beautiful: A Brief History of Information Storage

For readers whose eyes may be glazing over with all these large exponentials for measuring DNA storage, let me offer an ...

Why Do We Keep Coming Back to Godzilla?

Since 1954, the King of the Kaiju has been terrorizing the city of Tokyo. But it wasn't until the two most recent ...

Summer’s loudest insect is coming. It could save us from a deadly crisis

Scrutinising the wings of a notorious creature revealed something extraordinary.

Tiny gold particles in a helium droplet help solve the century-old Thomson problem

Gold nanoparticles preserved charge patterns on helium droplets, bringing the century-old Thomson problem into the laboratory ...
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The mysterious number that shaped our universe: fine structure constant

Chapters: 0:00 - Historical context of the fine-structure constant 2:54 - What is the interpretation of the fine-structure constant? 4:25 - How is α useful? 6:44 - How Arnold Sommerfeld found it 10:04 ...
Science Daily

Scientists shrink Archimedes’ screw to the size of a single molecule

Scientists have built a groundbreaking molecular motor that spins in either direction using electricity, inspired by a ...
Chemistry World

Inside the long-running argument over bonding in phase change materials

Germanium telluride (GeTe) is one of the simplest examples of a chalcogenide phase change material. Chalcogens include ...

Trinity Site open house sees record number of visitors

WHITE SANDS, N.M. (KRQE) – White Sands Missile Range said the Trinity Site open house saw a record number of visitors. The open house was this past weekend, where people could see the site where the ...
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Leap seconds help keep clocks synchronized, but their time may be over

You're probably used to the month of February having an extra day every four years, during the leap year. Timekeepers added that extra leap day because Earth completes one orbit around the Sun in ...