One hundred years after “nuclear isomers” were first discovered, Philip Walker and Zsolt Podolyák pick five examples of these long-lived, excited nuclear states to show why they are so important in ...

Fullerene chemistry continues to be a vibrant field of research, offering insights into the unique structural and electronic properties of carbon-based nanomaterials. At its core, fullerenes are ...

Light corn syrup is used to rotate the plane of polarized light on the stage of an overhead projector. A polarizing filter allows only those photons with electric fields oscillating in a single plane ...