A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration between ...

Researchers at ETH have used nuclear magnetic resonance to find out what other atoms are bound to the platinum atoms in a single-atom catalyst and where they are spatially located. The precise ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive biomedical imaging technique that uses a strong oscillating magnetic field to induce endogenous atoms such as hydrogen, or exogenously added ...

Carbon, one of the most abundant elements in the universe, constitutes many key components of life and technology. Because of ...

Breguet celebrates its 250th anniversary with several horological releases, including this masterpiece, the Tradition Seconde ...

Quantum plasmonic biosensors enable self-illumination for real-time, label-free diagnostics with scalable point-of-care applications.

Magnetic field data collected by ESA's Swarm satellites and other sources has been coverted into these frightening sounds.

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

Deep in Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists studied a green crystal called atacamite—and discovered it can cool itself ...

The research team has identified atacamite as a material with magnetocaloric properties. Natural crystals have long ...