In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game.

The quantum material is made from glass and gold. (LSU Quantum Photonics Group) Materials in a quantum state come with exotic ...

He received a 1992 Nobel Prize for developing a theory that explained fundamental processes behind photosynthesis, ...

Researchers have developed a visible-light-driven method that could help chemists build more complex drug-like molecules in ...

For the first time in history, astronomers have detected a sugar molecule floating among the gas clouds of interstellar space ...

Progress in chemistry is often gradual, with some of its most important advances taking years—sometimes decades—to unfold. A ...

Researchers have captured how a molecule redistributes energy after absorbing light, differentiating the roles of individual atoms in the process. They used X-ray flashes from the European XFEL to ...

A multi-wavelength image of the center of the Milky Way. Looks delicious. (NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC and STScI) The latest ...

Scientists identified the rare CO chondrite meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, revealing the impact dust killed life — not sulfur from the rock itself.

Erythrulose—a sugar found in raspberries—is also prevalent in a giant molecular cloud close to our galaxy’s core, scientists ...

Marie Curie's notebooks remain radioactive more than a century later because they were contaminated with radium-226, an ...

A new study has identified a natural process that may have helped keep Earth's climate stable for the past 60 million years.