Here’s a popular high school chemistry fact: Helium atoms don’t interact with other atoms to create compounds. Well, that fact might need some reevaluating. An international team of scientists think ...

Potting compounds seal and protect electrical components from various stresses, chemical exposure, moisture and other environmental elements that can damage or shorten the lifespan of the device. The ...

We often wonder what life and environmental conditions would be like on other planets. Scientists have speculated scenarios both similar to what we have on Earth and also completely different from ...

Noble gases—helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon—have long been believed to be the least reactive elements on the periodic table. Helium’s composition in particular, with its full outer ...

Discover how scientists developed a new compound that can efficiently absorb carbon dioxide directly from untreated ambient air.

University of Minnesota chemists have synthesized a complex chemical compound that could revolutionize medicine, agriculture, and electronics, overcoming a challenge that persisted for over a century.

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US has reported the first synthesis and characterisation of a molecular radium compound by single crystal x-ray diffraction. The findings reveal ...

A new method to capture carbon dioxide from the air has been developed at the University of Helsinki's chemistry department.

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Researchers from Skoltech, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Howard University, the University of Chicago, and the CAS Institute of Solid State Physics have synthesized K 2 N 6, an exotic compound ...