A University of Houston computational chemist has received a $1.96 million federal grant to study how light transforms small molecules, work that could open new avenues for storing and using chemical ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists ...

In the iconic "Sound of Music" score, "My Favorite Things," a young Julie Andrews lists snowflakes as objects that bring her ...

Tiny molecules that can think, remember, and learn may be the missing link between electronics and the brain. For more than ...

UBC Okanagan researchers have uncovered how plants create mitraphylline, a rare natural compound linked to anti-cancer ...

Mathematician Katie Steckles explains just why the proliferation of snowflake decorations this time of year is deeply ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.

DNA origami cages constrain individual proteins toward preferred orientations on electrodes, dramatically improving ...

Astronomers are scratching their heads at the odd chemistry, which hints at soot clouds and possibly diamond formation deep ...