A quiet grassland can feel still, but it is never silent. Every leaf, flower, and root releases tiny scent molecules that drift through the air.

Chemists have developed a light-driven method for producing a rare and highly strained molecular structure known as “housane.” Designing a new drug often starts with a basic but difficult task: making ...

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...

When molecules fall apart, their electric charge doesn't stay put—it rearranges as bonds stretch and break. An international team of scientists has now tracked these ultrafast changes in the small ...

A remarkably small bacterium containing fewer than 500 genes serves as the basis for one of the most detailed digital life ...

This, in turn, altered the configuration of the orbitals to achieve the half-Möbius configuration that the researchers were ...

Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Freed’s scientific trajectory began early; he and his brother Jack, who himself would go on to ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P.

Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and ...

A self-propelled nanoparticle engineered through computer simulation could bring laboratory-grade cancer detection to ...

An international team of researchers has synthesized a carbon chain molecule with a never-before-seen electronic twist and ...