The Nature Index 2024 Research Leaders — previously known as Annual Tables — reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural and health sciences, according to their output in ...

Dr. Gustav Egloff, ace researcher of Chicago’s Universal Oil Products Co., last week revealed that he had devised a new way to make synthetic rubber from butane gas. Butane, used for heating, welding, ...

Add olefins to the list of things the world is currently short on. Olefins are hydrocarbons that serve as the building blocks for products and materials we use every day, like plastics, rubber tires, ...

This figure shows a molecular worm representing a butane molecule as it navigates through the chemical labyrinth of a typical alkane-cracking zeolite. The alogorithm was used to compute the shortest ...

A crystal of graphite and its structure -- Electrons and atomic nuclei -- Electron shells -- The periodic table of the elements -- The hydrogen molecule -- Valence -- History of the water molecule -- ...