Chemists at the University of Delaware, in collaboration with a colleague from the University of Wisconsin, have set a new world record for the shortest chemical bond between two metals recorded in this case, two atoms of chromium.

Is the distance? Only 1.803 angstroms, which is in the order of a billionth the thickness of a human hair.

It was the desire to appear in the Guinness Book of Records what prompted chemists to tackle this job. As often happens in the case of science, the molecule found by accident. (more…)

There are new data provided the strongest evidence to date that the mud volcano world’s largest, which caused the deaths of 13 people in 2006 and drove thirty thousand in East Java, Indonesia, was not caused by an earthquake.

The drilling company Lapindo Brantas has denied a gas exploration well near the trigger out of the volcano, and are noted as an earthquake fault that broke at 280 miles away. The company backed its claims with a study by Nurrochmat Sawolo (who has done consulting work for Lapindo Brantas) and other colleagues. (more…)

It is vital to develop a global scientific consensus on methods with which to investigate one of the world’s last unexplored places on it causing the least possible disturbance. That environment, a unique system of lakes and other aquatic systems that connect them together perhaps, is buried several kilometers beneath the Antarctic ice sheet and is a kind of “time capsule” whose purity is vital to keep for no invalidate the research findings or cause other damage. A new study has deepened it. (more…)

According to an article published on March 28, 2007 at InternetNews.com, President and CEO John Philip Coghlan Visa said that consumers are ready for mobile payments and it is time to act. He believes mobile devices are currently the most promising payment platform. To demonstrate this, Coghlan was a congress of the CTIA (Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association) a video that was the Olympic medalist Michael Phelps, sponsored by Visa, a series of purchases and financial transactions with their mobile phone. (more…)