Tag: spectroscopy

  • Science & Tech

    Astrochemist brings search for extraterrestrial life to Center for Astrophysics

    Clara Sousa-Silva, whose expertise in phosphine as a biosignature gas was key to a recent analysis that may have detected life in the clouds of Venus, has moved to the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian for the final two years of her fellowship. She discusses the finding and the broader topic of the…

    21 minutes
    Venus.
  • Science & Tech

    Break it up

    Researchers at Harvard and Cornell have discovered exactly how a reactive copper-nitrene catalyst could transform a strong carbon-hydrogen bonds into a carbon-nitrogen bond, a valuable building block for chemical synthesis.

    5 minutes
    Erving Professor of Chemistry Theodore A. Betley and graduate student Kurtis Carsch