Researchers at the University of Osaka developed a light-driven method for synthesizing Davis reagents that generates the ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected 21 carbon-containing organic molecules in a single drilled rock sample from Mars, and ...

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for finding an ingenious and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules—an approach now used to make a variety of compounds, including ...

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 ...

Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry address a press conference to announce the winners in Stockholm on October 5, 2022. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten ...

(STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Scientists may have found a way to destroy cancer cells without ...

Inside Assistant Professor Meaghan Deegan’s inorganic chemistry lab at Santa Clara University, you’ll find students learning how to manipulate flasks within sealed gloveboxes or use specialized ...

Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...

In chemistry, molecules with a "flat" geometry are often stable enough to support a wide range of reactions. But in the quantum world, that's not technically true. Reading time 3 minutes Any concept ...

Quantum effects can play an important role in chemical reactions. Physicists have now observed a quantum mechanical tunneling reaction in experiments. The observation can also be described exactly in ...