Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

Due to its enormous 60-atom size, the overall molecule has a staggeringly high number of ways to vibrate -- at least 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 vibrational quantum states when the ...

Molecules like CO 2 can absorb them only when the packets have exactly the right amount of energy to bump the molecule up to a different quantum mechanical state. Carbon dioxide usually sits in its ...

Researchers in Korea have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology that predicts molecular properties by learning ...

The Bohr model is a neat but quite imperfect depiction of the inner workings of an atom before things got too muddled up by quantum principles. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

In the end, they calculated that the energy of the Bob carbon atom had decreased on average, and thus that energy had been extracted and released into the environment. This happened despite the fact ...

First quantum-mechanical model of quasicrystals reveals why they exist. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter. Learn more. Your name. Note.

Niels Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom—first published 100 years ago and commemorated in a special issue of Nature—is simple, elegant, revolutionary, and wrong. Well, "wrong" isn't exactly ...

In quantum mechanics, the closer things are, the stranger things get. And that’s definitely true of a new MIT study that pushed the limits of atom proximity by a factor of ten.

Carbon dioxide is uniquely suited to cause global warming because of a coincidental quirk of quantum mechanics.. Global warming is largely caused by carbon dioxide and other gases absorbing ...