From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

Christmas means different things to different people. For me, it's an opportunity to eat celebratory foods that aren't ...

Researchers have used a cutting-edge robotic system capable of synthesizing hundreds of metal complexes to develop a possible ...

Robotic chemistry created 700 metal compounds in a week, uncovering a promising antibiotic to fight drug-resistant bacteria.

Leaders of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are seeking to reconcile as they face the wrath of some members of the ...

Helen Tager-Flusberg, director of the Center for Autism Research Excellence at Boston University, said Johnson has “acted ...

The discovery of baking soda dates back to ancient times when it was used naturally as natron by ancient Egyptians for cleaning, mummification, and ointments. Later, a French chemist, Nicolas Leblanc ...

An octopus's mesmerizing skin can flit from orange to red in the blink of an eye, partly thanks to a natural pigment called xanthommatin. Scientists have long been intrigued by the chemical’s ...

You must have heard about Mahatma Gandhi's Dandi March. Did you know that salt was such an important part in our struggle for freedom? What is salt? Salt, also commonly known as table salt, is a ...

When biting into a chili pepper, you expect a fiery sensation on your tongue. This spiciness is detected because of capsaicinoid compounds. But for some peppers, despite high levels of capsaicinoids, ...

In this work, we introduce RGBChem, a novel approach for converting chemical compounds into image representations, which are subsequently used to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict ...