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Special relativity can warp chemical bonds – now we've seen it happen

An experiment with a charged molecule of bismuth and carbon reveals how effects from Albert Einstein’s special relativity ...

Carbon–bismuth bonds reveal that relativity blurs the textbook line between sigma and pi bonds

Brown University chemists have provided direct evidence that upends the textbook explanation of how triple chemical bonds ...

Chemists capture structure of the elusive borylnitrene trapped in a crystal using X-ray

Nitrenes are the ghosts of synthetic chemistry, formed in an instant and gone just as quickly, rearranging into something ...
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Scientists used AI to crack one of water's biggest mysteries

Water’s odd behavior becomes even more dramatic when it is supercooled, but scientists have struggled to compare the many ...
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NASA’s Curiosity rover found a molecule on Mars resembling a building block of DNA

NASA’s Curiosity rover has identified a nitrogen heterocycle in a 3.5-billion-year-old Martian rock, a type of molecule that ...
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Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy elements, where relativity makes the rules. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown ...