You probably learned in high school chemistry class that core electrons don't participate in chemical bonding.

Beneath our feet, an invisible world of electron exchanges quietly drives the chemistry that sustains ecosystems, controls ...

Chemistry students in Alyssa Fontenot’s class at West Feliciana High play Electron Configuration Battleship. Among the students were Kitty Lindsey, Ashlynn Culley, Kathleen Bigner, Shaniya Sullivan ...

Electrons flow underground in ways far more extensive than once believed, forming networks that link distant chemical zones. Minerals, organic molecules, and specialized bacteria can act as bridges, ...

Synthetic diamond research examines organic molecular interactions under the microscope. Scientists have long developed different techniques to produce artificial diamonds, but a new method from ...

Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson were awarded the 2017 Nobel prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing cryo-electron microscopy. The technique allows researchers to see the ...

The 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Jacques Dubochet of the University of Lausanne, Joachim Frank of Columbia University, and Richard Henderson of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular ...

Research suggests some metals’ semicore electrons may be more active on Earth’s surface than previously thought.