"SOMETIMES IT SEEMS to me that a bond between two atoms has become so real, so tangible, so friendly, that I can almost see it. Then I awake with a little shock, for a chemical bond is not a real ...

Chemistry students the world over are familiar with covalent bonds and hydrogen bonds. Now a study has revealed a strange variety of bond that acts like a hybrid of the two. Its properties raise ...

Anna Azvolinsky reports work on artificial photosynthesis (15 April, p 28). She writes that plants “store their energy… in chemical bonds. In other words they make fuel”. This risks reinforcing the ...

Florida State University researchers have discovered a pathway within a certain type of molecule that limits chemical ...

Chemical bonding enables scientists to take the 100-plus elements of the periodic table and combine them in myriad ways to form chemical compounds and materials. The success rate is pretty good, as ...