A research team at King’s College London has isolated a triangular aluminum compound, called a cyclotrialumane, that can ...

Researchers have confirmed that the spinel compound CuIr2S4, long studied for its unusual metal-insulator transition, becomes ...

Platinum works beautifully. It speeds up chemical reactions, holds up under punishment, and sits reliably at the center of ...

Changing the chemistry of a compound is difficult by itself, but modifying materials only a few atoms thick is its own challenge. A group of University of Chicago scientists announced an innovative ...

There are lots of different substances but only just over a hundred elements. An element is a substance that is made up of only one kind of atom. The atoms in a particular element are the same as each ...

The term aromaticity is a basic, long-standing concept in chemistry that is well established for ring-shaped carbon compounds. Aromatic rings consisting solely of metal atoms were, however, heretofore ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. WOMAN: The Greeks had many ideas about the chemistry of things. But the one who came closest to the ...