Browse Physics

Water dimers have been detected in room-temperature water vapor, a key step toward understanding their effect on solar absorption and chemistry in the atmosphere.

Experiments show that the times required to cross the barrier for the folding and unfolding of different nucleic acids are consistently about a few microseconds, despite many orders of magnitude differences in rate coefficients.

New STM experiments resolve the nodal structure of individual orbitals of single organic molecules.

Theoretical analysis of periodic RNA modifications in a simple biochemical reactor reveals emergent evolutionary properties.

Experiments now quantitatively confirm the standard model of electrokinetics, in which electric fields drive the flow of electrolytes, potentially leading to better sensors and biomedical diagnostic devices.

New experiments extend chemical dynamics research to temperatures below $1$ microkelvin.

We can generally understand the way simple chemical combinations arise by assuming a standard valence structure for the elements, but a high-pressure study suggests that the rules for hydrogen may not be so easily pinned down.

Different molecules with nearly identical absorption spectra can be distinguished with the help of shaped laser pulses and adaptive algorithms.