In one of Stanford’s labs, a roll of Scotch tape spins under a motorized roller. To the untrained eye, it’s an ordinary strip ...

For the first time, chemists have discovered a unique way to control and modify a type of compound widely used in medicines, ...

The intense electric fields generated by peeling tape can produce ‘microlightning’ that can ionise reactants and drive ...

Manufactured chemicals and materials are necessary for practically every aspect of daily life, from life-saving ...

Researchers at ETH have used nuclear magnetic resonance to find out what other atoms are bound to the platinum atoms in a single-atom catalyst and where they are spatially located. The precise ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new way that urea—an essential building block for life—could have formed on the early Earth. Instead of requiring high temperatures or complex catalysts, this ...