However, total bids submitted by investors rose to about N2.25 trillion, highlighting robust appetite for long-dated government securities. The 18.50% FGN February 2031 bond, a seven-year instrument ...

Water molecules are a driving force in the formation of molecular bonds, for example in proteins. Credit: INT, KIT. Water has a split personality. When it’s flowing freely in a glass or a river, it’s ...

THORChain introduces Orbital Pools, leveraging its native vaults and CosmWasm AppLayer to enable cross-chain stablecoin swaps, enhancing liquidity and efficiency in DeFi. In a significant development ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia. “An empty bedroom next to mine. A swing set with two ...

When Todd Sacktor was about to turn 3, his 4-year-old sister died of leukemia. “An empty bedroom next to mine. A swing set with two seats instead of one,” he said, recalling the lingering traces of ...

If you take two objects with fairly smooth surfaces, and put these together, you would not expect them to stick together. At least not without a liberal amount of adhesive, water or some other ...

Single-atom catalysts (SACs), with their excellent metal atom utilization and unique physicochemical properties, hold promise for broad applications, especially in heterogeneous catalysis and energy ...

Abstract: A surface pretreatment is a critical process in low-temperature Cu/SiO2 hybrid bonding, significantly improving the quality of bond for both the Cu–Cu and SiO2–SiO2 interfaces. Previously, ...

Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) have become a cornerstone in display and lighting technologies, driving the demand for efficient organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials ...

A research team has successfully developed a new approach to create switchable magnetic materials by using hydrogen bonding at the molecular level. This groundbreaking study shows how certain metal ...

ABSTRACT: For the first time, for different organic and inorganic compounds possessing the plastic crystalline phase, a new semiempirical equation describing dependence of their fusion enthalpies on ...