When University at Buffalo chemists analyzed samples of water, fish, and bird eggs, they weren't surprised to find plenty of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). After all, these "forever ...

Figure 1: The apparatus that Atsushi Yamaguchi and his team used to trap triply charged thorium-229 ions and to perform laser spectroscopy on them. © 2024 RIKEN ...

Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology for the first time discovered the selective generation of three types of structural isomers (a set of different nanostructures with an identical chemical ...

Thalidomide, one of the most infamous drugs of all, caused severe birth defects in the children of pregnant women who took the drug for nausea in the 1950s. Its story has been repeated over and over – ...

London-based Isomer Capital, a private investment firm focused exclusively on European venture capital, announced on Monday the first close of its latest €250M fund, Isomer Capital III (IC III). The ...

The UK-based private investment firm, Isomer Capital has announced the first close of its new €250 million Isomer Capital III fund, it’s filled one third of the fund quicker than it was expecting. The ...

New statistical framework developed by researchers at the University of California in Riverside allows confident identification of isomeric molecules by mass spectrometry, even when no unique ...

Sajish Mathew receives funding from NIH COBRE grant (P20GM109091). The effects a drug or chemical compound have on the body depend on how its atoms are arranged in space. Some compounds have a dark ...

Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best ...

Dennis Mücher receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Michigan State University ...