During those very early moments of the universe, things were extraordinarily hot, and quark-gluon plasma behaves in strange ...

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

An attosecond—or 0.000000000000000001 second—is no time at all for a person. That is not so for electrons, atoms and molecules, and laser-wielding scientists are revealing the action ...

Although these experiments were conducted here on Earth, the findings constitute evidence that ice in space may indeed ...

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

Supporting Information The Supporting Information is available free of charge on the ACS Publications website at DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b03099. Additional experimental details on the synthesis 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 ...

A new molecule may soon enable tiny hard drives that store vastly more data. Withstanding extreme cold, it paves the way for ...

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

Lutz Greb, professor at Heidelberg University’s Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, is to be presented with this year’s ...

"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, ...