Chemistry News

May 23, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

In ground-breaking experiments conducted at the radioactive isotope facility ISOLDE at CERN, a multinational research team has investigated the atomic structure of astatine (At), the rarest atom on our planet. Resonance ionization laser ion source of ISOLDE (CERN) Astatine was discovered by D. Corson and co-workers in 1940 by bombarding a bismuth target with alpha particles. The most stable isotope of this element has a half-life time of only 8.1...

May 6, 2013 by Sci-News.com

U.S. researchers have designed a new computer algorithm that can model and catalogue the entire set of carbon-containing molecules, and created a map of...

Feb 22, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

By studying a bright blue pigment used in Ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago, U.S. chemists have uncovered clues toward the development of new nanomaterials...

Jan 30, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

A team of chemists from Finland and Canada has been able to identify the mechanism that enables some non-metal compounds to mimic the reactivity of their...

Sep 19, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of scientists has used a new empirical model to explore how gold atoms bond to other atoms. Gold crystals (Alchemist-hp, www.pse-mendelejew.de...

Jun 6, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

Scientists have revealed new details on a 2,300-year-old beak-like weapon that an ancient warship used to ram enemy vessels in the First Punic War, the...

May 28, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, a team of scientists from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the University of Warwick and IBM Research – Zurich...

May 22, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

British scientists have developed a harmless, straightforward and inexpensive technique for removing gold from fossils. Image shows a 300 million year...

May 16, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

A team of scientists from the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm University has found large quantities of sulphur and iron compounds in marine archaeological...