At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

At some point during the evolution of life on Earth, inorganic matter became organic, nonliving matter became living. How ...

A new method turns noise into valuable data to enhance understanding of chemical reactions and material properties with unprecedented detail at the atomic level. The results of this research are now ...

Chirality: like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules can have the same composition, but a different shape and ...

Can you imagine a life-saving molecule whose "twin" is a deadly poison? As surprising as it may seem, this chemical reality is known as "chirality ...

By putting a carbon atom in place of a core oxygen, chemists constructed an opioid that blocks pain with less respiratory ...

Understanding matter to shape the future At the Institute of Chemical Sciences (ICS), our research focuses on understanding ...

The key change is an ancient defense system. Basically, these tomatoes are manufacturing a version of an alkaloid whose ...

Strange Matter might be the most bizarre and potentially dangerous form of matter in the Universe. Unlike the atoms and molecules that make up everything around us, Strange Matter is composed of ...

A radical cation salt of new aromatic compound produced a molecular conductor with three-dimensional conduction pathways. The conduction pathways were based on intermolecular interactions via ethyl ...

Researchers have identified a new complex molecule in space called cyanocoronene. It is a type of hydrocarbon composed of ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...