Chemists have demonstrated the synthesis of a new molecular form of carbon.

The new molecule – cyclo[48]carbon, made up of 48 carbon atoms in an alternating single/triple bond pattern – is stable enough to be studied in liquid solution form at room temperature.

The study – only the second example of a new type of molecular carbon allotrope that can be studied under normal laboratory conditions – has been published today (14 August) in Science.

A quantum system that defies classical expectations by resisting heating under continuous external driving has been observed by researchers at the University of Innsbruck. The phenomenon, termed “many-body dynamical localization”, reveals how quantum coherence prevents energy absorption. The findings have now been published in Science.

A new technology, presented by University at Buffalo scientists in a study published in Nature Communications, centers on a pig enzyme called ST3Gal1. Researchers retrained it to bind to glycans instead of building them. This new glycan-binding enzyme, which scientists named sCore2, could help analyze and treat diseases via sugar patterns found on the surface of cells.