Buckminsterfullerenes, or buckyballs, are hollow, soccer ball–shaped molecular cages first discovered in carbon. Their ...

From household plastic packaging to the flexible frameworks that support wearable electronics, polymer materials form the ...

Even though sugars are often framed as simple sources of energy, they also serve as structurally complex and functionally diverse molecules that mediate interactions between organisms. Among these, ...

In the mid-1970s, a minor breakdown in communication occurred in a research laboratory in Queen Elizabeth College in London.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that an examination into chemical contaminants in infant formula found "an overwhelming majority of samples had undetectable or very low levels of ...

The Food and Drug Administration has tested over 300 infant formula samples for heavy metals and other toxic chemicals, and says that its results, released on Wednesday, April 29, show that the U.S.

A chemical leak at a West Virginia plant killed two people and sent 19 others to the hospital, authorities said. The leak occurred at the Catalyst Refiners plant, a silver recovery business in ...

As many as 30 others were treated at a hospital and at the scene after a “chemical release” of hydrogen sulfide at a plant in Nitro, W.Va., the authorities said. By Christine Hauser and Mark Walker ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in ...

Human ribosome structures at near-atomic resolution have been determined predominantly from transformed cell lines, often using translation inhibitors during purification that can introduce structural ...