I keep coming back to the same unsettling thought: we may have just stumbled onto a form of life that does not fit any ...

Deep in some of Earth’s oldest rocks, traces of ancient life still linger, even when every cell has crumbled. You would not ...

A straightforward asymmetric strategy has led to the creation of elusive nitrogen stereocentres. The carefully designed intramolecular reaction used substrate engineering to overcome the ...

Sometimes big things grow from small and inauspicious beginnings, and that’s the story of the 2025 Nobel prize in Chemistry.

The Phi-4 model was trained on just 1.4 million carefully chosen prompt-response pairs. Instead of brute force, the Microsoft ...

A new open-access tool created by University of Toronto Engineering researchers provides a systematic way to organize and ...

While there is fossil evidence of life older than 3.3bn years, this is the first time that its molecular chemical fingerprints have been detected through high-tech sleuthing.

CDT presents a monthly series of censored content that has been added to our “404 Deleted Content Archive.” Each month, we ...

Chemistry rewards clarity, consistency, and calm. Treat it well, and it’ll be your most scoring ally. Neglect it, and it’ll ...

“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...