A giant cloud of gas near the center of the Milky Way has surprised astronomers with its incredible chemical richness. Inside ...

The human body and its gut microbiome produce thousands of small molecules that shape how the body functions—influencing ...

A single drilled rock sample from Mars has turned into one of the more chemically rich finds of NASA’s Curiosity mission.

Ohio University Distinguished Professor Alexander Govorov of the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Nanoscale and ...

When drops of oil are added to water, the oil and water remain separate. Within cells, biological molecules cluster together ...

Small molecules have critical roles at all levels of biological complexity and yet remain orphans of the central dogma. Chemical biologists, working with small molecules, expand our understanding of ...

A molecule placed on a surface should be easier to probe and manipulate than one hidden inside a solid or suspended in vacuum ...

A molecule is a group of atoms bonded together. Molecules make up nearly everything around you – your skin, your chair, even your food. They vary in size, but are extremely small. You can't see an ...

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing "an ingenious tool for building molecules" that is also cheap and environmentally-friendly. About twenty years ago, the two ...

Iowa State's project aims to decode molecular rules, enabling faster, targeted fabrication of stretchable, bio-compatible ...