Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

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Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

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A precious metal used everywhere from car exhaust systems to fuel cells, platinum is an incredibly efficient catalyst—but it's costly and carbon-intensive. Now, a serendipitous collaboration between ...

Researchers use hydrogen's catalytic action in platinum to reverse magnetization loss, boosting durability of thin-film ...

Imagine a world where the weather forecast isn’t just a guess, but a button you can press. Picture farmers summoning rain for ...

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Researchers at ETH have used nuclear magnetic resonance to find out what other atoms are bound to the platinum atoms in a single-atom catalyst and where they are spatially located. The precise ...