Robotic chemistry created 700 metal compounds in a week, uncovering a promising antibiotic to fight drug-resistant bacteria.
Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed.
An innovative three-color method for capturing images of mRNA inside live mammalian cells has been developed by UMass Amherst chemists. Because RNA is both incredibly important to human life and ...
How directors and writers striving for a PG-13 rating have learned to ration the use of a four-letter obscenity.
In 2001, chemists K. Barry Sharpless, Hartmuth C. Kolb, and M. G. Finn introduced click chemistry, a concept in which organic ...
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 ...
Researchers have identified a distinctive ultraviolet signature of water in the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS.