Space is famously empty. The cold vacuum of space—or more specifically, the interstellar medium—lacks much of anything, including the air needed to conduct sound. But it isn’t quite completely empty.

Astrophysicists at the University of Colorado's JILA, National Institute of Science and Technology, have conducted an experiment to produce benzene the way theories have predicted it is produced in ...

In 1825 Michael Faraday isolated a sweet-smelling chemical that he dubbed bi-carburet of hydrogen. That molecule, better known as benzene, is perhaps the most famous molecular ring in chemistry. Back ...