The unspoken promise of new technologies is that they will advance and enhance our picture of the world — that goes double for the ones that are specifically designed to let us look closer at the ...

Caltech researchers have identified a novel chemical reaction that could explain the formation of the building blocks of DNA ...

Scientists have used computing power and clever modeling to solve a 200-year-old chemistry and math puzzle. For all these years, the question at play has been how to plot the electron structure of a ...

A collage with images of Michael Faraday, Kathleen Lonsdale, a ship, an oil lamp, and historical crystallography equipment. Credit: Madeline Monroe C&EN/Central Press/Hulton Archive via Getty ...

Earlier this month, Molecule of the Week brought you the venerable and extremely hazardous molecule benzene. This week’s molecule has one of the structures that was originally proposed for benzene: ...