For thousands of years, humans have valued pure gold because it stays bright and shiny without becoming dull. Now, scientists ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Gold may have a secret self-defense system that helps it resist tarnishing. Researchers discovered that atoms on gold ...

Brown University chemists have provided direct evidence that upends the textbook explanation of how triple chemical bonds ...

Nitrenes are the ghosts of synthetic chemistry, formed in an instant and gone just as quickly, rearranging into something ...

A University at Buffalo physicist has received two U.S. Department of Defense grants totaling $1.1 million to study the quantum dynamics that could help advance neutral-atom quantum computing.

Push two metal plates together on Earth and nothing happens. Take those same plates into the vacuum of space and they can ...

UB physicist Jamir Marino earns $1.1 million in Defense Department grants to model Rydberg atoms and advance neutral-atom ...

Gold may stay shiny because some of its surface atoms reorganize into structures that block oxygen reactions. Gold has been valued for millennia because it keeps its shine, but new research from ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) model is able to fill in missing or incorrectly placed atoms – such as hydrogen – in the crystal structures of inorganic materials. Refining atomic positions in this ...