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

Nick Manning has a deep love for trying to optimize things. It sparked an investigative drive in the Commonwealth University-Lock Haven chemistry major while operating his own microgreens business in ...

Researchers discovered how to flip the structure of complex drug compounds using a simple reagent, offering a game-changing ...

Shifts in U.S. federal science funding—driven by the newly established Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)—are causing delays, uncertainty, and program changes across academic and regulatory ...

Scientific norms are guidelines for how scientists are expected to behave. A researcher who violates one of these norms won’t be carted off to jail or fined an exorbitant fee. But when a norm is not ...

In this interview, Professor James J. Collins, founder of the field of Synthetic Biology, discusses his journey to founding ...

Without access to practice footage, team meetings or individual workouts, college basketball fans looking for offseason progress reports on their favorite teams normally have to rely on the word of ...

Working in tandem, a quantum computer and a supercomputer modelled the behaviour of several molecules, paving the way for ...

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Partners who share romantic chemistry will also instinctively expend effort for one another. All of this comes from a place ...

How do the colors, sparkles and sounds come about? Chemistry professor Marcy Towns says the anatomy of fireworks is key to its explosion.

In one of Stanford’s labs, a roll of Scotch tape spins under a motorized roller. To the untrained eye, it’s an ordinary strip ...