There's nothing worse than forgetting about your cup of coffee, then coming back an hour later to a lukewarm drink. Sure, you could nuke it in the microwave, but it just doesn't taste the same after.

Scientists at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, have captured real-time images showing how ...

Atoms that occur in nature interact with the electromagnetic field at a single point, allowing scientists to make certain assumptions about energy levels with point-like references. However, ...

The electronic structure of atoms and molecules is the series of energy levels that it are possible for a bound electron to occupy. This electronic structure determines many of the defining ...

Twenty years ago John Maddox published a celebrated News and Views article in Nature 1 in which he provocatively wrote: “One of the continuing scandals in the physical sciences is that it remains ...

There's nothing more invigorating than a hot cuppa in the morning – and nothing more disappointing than when your drink has gone cold. So which types of insulated cups are most likely to keep your ...

When a metal element reacts with a non-metal element an ionic compound is formed. When a non-metal element reacts with a non-metal element a covalent bond is formed. Structures and properties ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was predicted in the 1980s and first recreated in a laboratory in 2018. With each ...