Nitrogen gas (N2) is one of the most abundant yet highly stable gases in the Earth's atmosphere. Its N≡N triple bond has an ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained in 1905, transformed our understanding of how light interacts with matter. When ...

While researchers have long suspected that this type of nitrogen that lacks two specific electrons -- a nitrene -- was tied to reactivity, the elusive species had yet to be directly spotted.

In something akin to a double-slit experiment, scientists at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, in co-operation with researchers from the California Institute of Technology in ...