Lasers are used to carry out functions ranging from reading a bar code label at the grocery store to shooting down enemy missiles in space. Now, chemists at Purdue University are using lasers to coax ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

A University of Houston computational chemist has received a $1.96 million federal grant to study how light transforms small ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers report a unique strategy for controlling molecular conductance by using molecules with rigid backbones – such as ladder-type molecules, known as ...

Common in nature and found in DNA and amino acids, chiral molecules are asymmetric with a structure that’s different from its mirror image. Chiral amino acids are “left-handed” and cannot be swapped ...

Some molecules have trouble sitting still. That’s what a team of researchers found out when they peeked at this cyclization reaction using atomic force microscopy, which allows them to zoom in on ...

Alzheimer’s disease has long resisted simple answers, yet a growing body of research is pointing to an unexpected ally already circulating inside the human body: a small natural molecule that appears ...

Fluorine is critical for biomedicine. This element can help drug compounds be more potent and last longer in the body, and ...

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing "an ingenious tool for building molecules" that is also cheap and environmentally-friendly. About twenty years ago, the two ...

Scientists Benjamin List and David MacMillan won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for discovering a new way to construct molecules. By allowing chemical reactions to happen faster, with fewer ...

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have identified small molecules capable of influencing a hard-to-target receptor family ...