Chemists have demonstrated that neutral chalcogen-bond donors can induce asymmetry in chemical reactions, addressing a challenge that has limited the development of chalcogen-bonding catalysis.

John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’t. For that vision, he’s now been awarded a ...

Researchers from Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Technical University of Berlin and North Carolina State University disproved a 150-year-old rule.Astrid Eckert / TUM Researchers in the US ...

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Most people are familiar with conventional cubical six-sided dice, but there are also polyhedral versions like the 20-sided dice used in ancient Rome and to play Dungeons and Dragons. Researchers have ...

The Louvre’s particle accelerator has gone digital. The world’s most famous art museum has had a particle accelerator since the late 1980s, the crown jewel of a robust analytical laboratory dedicated ...

Mathematicians think abstract tools from a field called symplectic geometry might help with planning missions to far-off moons and planets. In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch ...

The semi-analytical model (based on the averaging technique) for long-term orbital evolution has proven to be useful in both astrophysical and astrodynamical contexts. In this secular approximation, ...

Humans have an extraordinary ability to learn new concepts from just a few examples, but the cognitive mechanism behind this ability remains mysterious. A long line of work in systems neuroscience has ...

Abstract: Air-gap magnetic field modulation has been widely observed in electric machines. In this study, we present an analytical analysis and performance characterization of brushless doubly fed ...

The sprawling 11,500-year-old stone Göbekli Tepe complex in southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, is the earliest known temple in human history and one of the most important discoveries of Neolithic research ...

On July 25, 1665, a five-year-old boy named John Morley, of the parish of the Holy Trinity in Cambridge, England, was found dead in his home. When town officials examined his corpse, they noted black ...