NASA's next Mars rover is brawniest and brainiest one yet
With eight successful Mars landings, NASA is upping the ante with its newest rover.
Space Exploration
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News tagged with surface molecules
How to teach gold to tell left from right
Nanometer-sized gold particles consisting of only a few atoms can be used as catalysts for important chemical reactions. Noelia Barrabés from the Institute of Materials Chemistry at TU Wien has been researching new methods ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 16, 2020
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Rock-breathing bacteria are electron spin doctors, study shows
Electrons spin. It's a fundamental part of their existence. Some spin "up" while others spin "down." Scientists have known this for about a century, thanks to quantum physics.
Biochemistry
Jul 10, 2020
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Helicopter or cartwheel? What happens when a molecule collides with a surface
What happens when a molecule collides with a surface? Researchers at Swansea University have shown that the orientation of the molecule as it moves—whether it is spinning like a helicopter blade or rolling like a cartwheel—is ...
General Physics
Jun 23, 2020
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Hot holes are key in a plasmon-induced reaction of oxygen molecules on silver surfaces
Chemists at RIKEN have discovered why shining light on silver nanoparticles causes oxygen molecules attached to their surfaces to break off. This insight will help researchers design new catalysts that harness light energy.
Nanophysics
Jun 12, 2020
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Gently caressing atoms
Oxygen is highly reactive. It accumulates on many surfaces and determines their chemical behavior. At the Vienna University of Technology, scientists study the interaction between oxygen and metal oxide surfaces, which play ...
General Physics
Jun 8, 2020
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New experiments show complex astrochemistry on thin ice covering dust grains
Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the University of Jena have obtained a clearer view of nature's tiny deep-space laboratories: tiny dust grains covered with ice. Instead of regular shapes covered ...
General Physics
Jun 8, 2020
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A new horizon for vibrational circular dichroism spectroscopy
Vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) spectroscopy is an extension of circular dichroism spectroscopy into the infrared and near-infrared regions where vibrational transitions occur in the ground electronic state of a molecule. ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 29, 2020
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The detective aboard NASA's Perseverance rover
Mars is a long way from 221B Baker Street, but one of fiction's best-known detectives will be represented on the Red Planet after NASA's Perseverance rover touches down on Feb. 18, 2021. SHERLOC, an instrument on the end ...
Space Exploration
May 26, 2020
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Watching single protons moving at water-solid interfaces
The H+ proton consists of a single ion of hydrogen, the smallest and lightest of all the chemical elements. These protons occur naturally in water where a tiny proportion of H2O molecules separate spontaneously. Their amount ...
Nanophysics
May 25, 2020
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