Five different carbon-based compounds discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Astrophysicists from Keele University, alongside an international research team supported by NASA, detected large complex ...
The Conversation

Only 1% of chemical compounds have been discovered – here’s how we search for others that could change the world

Matthew Addicoat receives funding from EPSRC and the Royal Society. The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them.

Chemical language models don't need to understand chemistry, study demonstrates

Language models are now also being used in the natural sciences. In chemistry, they are employed, for instance, to predict ...

Drug discovery platform yields optimized compound against SARS-CoV-2 and shows promise against other RNA-based viruses

In a quest to develop new antiviral drugs for COVID-19 and other diseases, a collaboration led by scientists at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute has identified a potential new drug against the virus ...
C&EN

Chemists discovered new compounds at an exponential rate over the past two centuries

Scientists don’t know the limits of chemical space—the collection of all possible molecules—but a new analysis concludes chemists have discovered new compounds in that space at an exponential rate ...
News Medical

Newly discovered chemical compound shows potential to become treatment for brain disorders

Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) discovered a novel chemical compound, which has the potential to became a new drug for the treatment of core ...