In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game.

A 3,000-year-old tomb near Luxor has been discovered by archaeologists. This tomb is believed to belong to a senior official ...

This process weakens magnetic support, allowing the core to collapse and eventually form a protostar. Credit: Yurika Nakamura ...

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...

Many clinically relevant molecules fall by the wayside because of the complex challenge of purifying them at industrial scale ...

Nature is beautiful, powerful and essential. But nature is not always gentle. The same biological world that gives rise to ...

For decades, chemists believed that assembling rotaxanes required carefully designed molecular recognition between a ring and ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University, the Institute for Molecular Science and ...

Call it an extra-sweet discovery. A group of astronomers has detected a sugar molecule swirling inside a cloud of gas and dust near the centre of our galaxy. They are calling the molecule — a compound ...

It’s the first time a sugar molecule has been detected in interstellar space. The discovery provides tantalizing new clues ...

Gold may have a secret self-defense system that helps it resist tarnishing. Researchers discovered that atoms on gold ...