With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...

Since their discovery in the 1950s, metallocenes—chemical compounds where a metal atom sits "sandwiched" between two carbon rings—have been at the heart of organometallic chemistry research, finding ...

One of physicists’ foundational assumptions is that atoms aren’t unique—if two atoms have the same number of protons, neutrons and electrons, they will look and act exactly alike. This belief is ...

Scientists have uncovered a strange hidden structure formed during the creation of metallocenes, a class of sandwich-like molecules used in everything from catalysis to medicine. The newly ...

There is so much information about the world and life itself out there that it’s almost unfathomable. And every now and then, ...

The race to build the first truly useful quantum computer just got more exciting. A quantum computer made from extremely cold atoms has now passed some of the most important milestones towards ...

A research group led by Assistant Professor Takafumi Tomita and Professor Kenji Ohmori at the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, has developed a new microscopy ...

Leftover Altoid tins are staple components in all types of handy, DIY projects. Once you eat the mints, the aluminum containers routinely house basic first aid kits, miniature speakers, sewing ...

Most quantum devices need to be chilled to near absolute zero to work. A new chip built at Stanford University does not. In a ...

The cost to put food in cans remains high because manufacturers must still import steel from overseas. U.S. Steel plans to reopen a tin-plate factory. Rolls of tin-plated steel at Ohio Coatings in ...

Instead of trying to suppress chemical interactions between the solid electrolyte and the electrode, a research team engineered an alloy that utilizes these side effects to ...