Scientists have achieved the first real-time visualization of how 'excited-state aromaticity' emerges within just hundreds of femtoseconds and then triggers a molecule to change from bent to planar ...

Experiments show that those small electrical charges can trigger the chemical reactions necessary to form organic molecules.

Perotto and colleagues took advantage of the thiol groups on the cysteine amino acids in keratin. They thought they could ...

Proteins are long molecules that must fold into complex three-dimensional structures to perform their cellular functions.

We may be starting to get a grasp on what kick-started life on Earth – and it could help us search for it on other planets ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

In a ceremony held last month, the 2024 Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize was awarded to Wesley Sundquist, PhD, Leo T. and Barbara K ...

In their view, inorganic molecules might have reacted due to energy from the Sun or lightning strikes to form life’s building ...

Artificial photosynthesis holds the key to cleaner energy and carbon capture, but replicating nature’s process is no easy ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have made a groundbreaking ...

A Stanford study shows that electrical charges in sprays of water can cause chemical reactions that form organic molecules from inorganic materials. The findings provide evidence that microlightning ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...