A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration between ...

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The process became the world’s main source of nitrogen for fertiliser and was dubbed the “reaction that fed the world”. A ...

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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 ...

The discovery itself is simple and fundamental, but the applications stretch far and wide into astrophysics and quantum ...

A new method in electron microscopy enables sub-20-picometer targeting of individual atoms without prior exposure, opening ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the building blocks of galaxies during their formative years. The CRISTAL ...