The present writer has briefly discussed the history of this law, in NATURE, vol. 1. 1894, p. 149. In two unappreciative lines in a footnote to the “Elements of Chemical Philosophy,” published in 1812 ...

Dalton’s Atomic Theory: British physicist, chemist, and meteorologist John Dalton proposed Dalton’s atomic theory in the year 1808. This was the first theory that studied the matter in the form of ...

In what's being hailed as an important first for chemistry, an international team of scientists has developed a new technology that can selectively rearrange atomic bonds within a single molecule. The ...

IBM scientists have been able to differentiate the chemical bonds in individual molecules for the first time using a technique known as noncontact atomic force microscopy (AFM). The results push the ...

The achievements of the scientist John Dalton were commemorated on Thursday 7 June at his birthplace in Cumbria. The Royal Society of Chemistry unveiled a plaque in his honour at the cottage where he ...

MIT researchers found that a hidden atomic order can persist in metals even after they undergo extreme processing. For ...

Every field of science has its favorite anniversary. For physics, it’s Newton’s Principia of 1687, the book that introduced the laws of motion and gravity. Biology celebrates Darwin’s On the Origin of ...

MIT researchers found that metals retain hidden atomic patterns once believed to vanish during manufacturing. These patterns ...