Modern fertilizer manufacturing uses the Haber-Bosch and Ostwald processes to fix aerial nitrogen as ammonia, then oxidize the ammonia to nitric acid. Having already created a Haber-Bosch reactor ...

Chemists at the School of Science of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have recently made ...

Given the amino-acid sequence or 3D structure of a protein, how much can we predict about its function using just a desktop computer? The recent explosive growth in the volume of sequence data and ...

Teaching the VSEPR (valence shell electron-pair repulsion) model can be a tedious process. Traditionally, Lewis structures are drawn and the number of “electron clouds” (groups) around the central ...

Polydiacetylenes (PDAs) possess dramatic chromatic transitions, which can be exploited to make stimuli-responsive sensors. Key to developing robust sensors is understanding the changes in molecular ...

Grassland ecosystems show abrupt changes when nitrogen fertilization exceeds key threshold by INRAE - National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment ...