Water molecules do not simply swirl around in complete disorder; they can form certain preferred structures. This scientific fact is often presented in entirely unscientific ways. For example, when ...

Finding and developing new molecules is one of the great research endeavors of modern chemistry. From the development of new ...

​The plant compounds were also found to be effective against SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic.

An international team led by researchers at University of California San Diego and University of California, Riverside has ...

Researchers discovered that life leaves behind unique statistical patterns in molecules, potentially offering a new way to identify alien biology. Credit: Stock Scientists may have found a hidden ...

Creating complex molecules usually requires years of experience and countless decisions, but a new AI system is changing that ...

I n science, whether an anomaly is insignificant or the basis for a promising new field of study can boil down to the ...

A molecule is a group of atoms bonded together. Molecules make up nearly everything around you – your skin, your chair, even your food. They vary in size, but are extremely small. You can’t see an ...

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took this selfie at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” after a 19th century English ...

Small molecules have critical roles at all levels of biological complexity and yet remain orphans of the central dogma. Chemical biologists, working with small molecules, expand our understanding of ...

Finding life on Mars might be closer than we thought. NASA’s Curiosity rover has yielded promising data from the Red Planet, the space agency says.