A super-charged solar storm known as the “Gannon event” forced the Earth’s plasmasphere—a doughnut-shaped shell of charged particles that normally envelops the planet—to shrink to roughly one-fifth of ...

A powerful geomagnetic storm recently compressed Earth’s outer plasma shield so dramatically that satellites found themselves ...

Atoms with more than 4 valence electrons tend to gain electrons to achieve a stable configuration, forming negative ions ...

Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of ...

Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) have definitively resolved a two-decade-long controversy regarding ...

The shapes of atomic orbitals also affect the spectroscopic properties of atoms and molecules. The absorption and emission of ...

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This work presents a physical model that explains the effects of electric fields on high-valent Fe–oxo heme protein reactivity, attributing these effects to shifts in the energy levels of reactant ...

Do all great scientists make their best discoveries in the lab? Probably not physicist Richard Feynman, for whom a flying plate in a college cafeteria led to a quick calculation of electron orbits and ...

Researchers at Kyushu University have developed a novel organic molecule that simultaneously exhibits two highly sought-after properties: efficient light emission suitable for advanced displays and ...

ABSTRACT: The original intention of the author’s preoccupation with the quantum-mechanical behaviour of simple atoms and molecules such as Hydrogen and Helium was, on the one hand, the elegant ...