Chemists have developed a novel way to generate a variety of highly useful chemical building blocks by harnessing metal carbenes, suggests new research.

Using a cutting-edge magnetic wave detection technique, a new study in Nature Communications has identified lithium in ...

As millions of people know firsthand, the most common side effect of mRNA vaccines like the COVID-19 shot is inflammation: ...

A resonance effect can significantly affect how a three-atom molecule cools down when excited, RIKEN physicists have found. The study, published in Physical Review A, highlights the complexity of the ...

Ammonia (NH3) is vital for agriculture, as it is the basis for fertilizers that are needed to feed the world's population.

By leveraging the concept of chirality, or the difference of a shape from its mirror image, scientists have engineered an ...

Chemists at the University of Geneva and University of Pisa have crafted a novel family of chiral molecules whose ...

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”. Like a right hand and a left hand, two molecules ...

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

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll ...

In the world of next-generation energy, researchers are taking a leap beyond chemistry into the strange rules of quantum mechanics. A new type of battery, known as a quantum battery, is no longer just ...

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