Naphthalene balls, commonly used in Indian homes to protect clothes from pests, pose health risks if misused. Exposure can cause irritation, and accidental ingestion is dangerous, especially for ...

A theory of energy levels is given for rigid lattice mixed crystals in which the impurity differs from the host in its intermolecular coupling properties as well as in excitation energy The influence ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Vibrational dynamics governs the fundamental properties of molecular crystals, shaping ...

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Imagine a crystal that changes color just by coming into contact with a pollutant, almost instantly revealing its presence. Scientists at Japan’s Shibaura Institute of Technology (SIT) have developed ...

Charge transfer, or the movement of electrons, can occur either within a molecule or between two molecules. Combining the two types of charge transfer is challenging. Now, scientists have developed a ...

A donor-acceptor pyrazinacene derivative with triphenylamine substituents selectively detects naphthalene via π-hole⋅⋅⋅π interactions, inducing a striking, reversible color change from greenish-blue ...

Martina Gutfreund knew it could be hard to make a living mining crystals. Still, she was shocked to discover, on a recent trip to Namibia’s mineral-rich Erongo region, that her purchase of 250 pounds ...

It was a brutal crime. The murderer seized the ten-year-old child by the legs, and smashed its head against a stone pillar. The skull was shattered, the right eye was knocked out and there was a deep ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...