For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Seattle biotech startup Rhizome Research has emerged from stealth with technology for creating small-molecule drug candidates ...

Scientists have made leaps and bounds in bending atoms to their will, making them into everything from ultraprecise clocks to ...

Research published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society demonstrates a new way to make carbon-based battery ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have sought alternatives to silicon for building molecular electronics. The vision was ...

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

Drug developers are racing to design molecules that coax our cells into burning more energy even when we are sitting still, ...

Chemist Anne Lüscher showed at 39C3 how synthetic DNA can be used for data storage and tamper-proof authentication.

Scientists at MIT and Stanford have unveiled a promising new way to help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells ...

Scientists were able to manipulate a calcium monohydride molecular ion — made up of one atom of hydrogen and one atom of ...

Molecules containing noble gases shouldn’t exist. By definition, these chemical elements — helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon — are the party poopers of the periodic table, huddling in the ...