Titan’s harsh chemistry breaks basic rules, offering new clues about how life’s building blocks might form in space.

The movement of protons through electrically charged water is one of the most fundamental processes in chemistry. It is evident in everything from eyesight to energy storage to rocket fuel — and ...

Water is called the universal solvent for its ability to dissolve a broad range of chemicals. But you wouldn’t know that from spending time in chemistry labs, where the solvents of choice are almost ...

Scientists have found that on Titan, substances that should remain separate can actually combine under freezing conditions.

Today, Wednesday, Jordanian chemist Omar Yaghi won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, so who is this Jordanian scientist? Omar ...

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the US space agency NASA have made an unexpected discovery ...

The chemical rearrangement of oligo-(phenylene-1,2-ethynylenes) as seen in the microscope image (top) and the stick diagram of the molecular structure. de Oteyza et al It’s one of the most basic ...

In 1806, the people of Leeds were sure that the rapture was upon them. Chickens had actually started laying eggs with apocalyptic messages on them. That’s when a group of intrepid skeptics revealed ...

There are chemistry teachers all over the U.S. that know this simple truth: chemistry matters in everyday life. Nothing demonstrates this principle more than when you look back at the lead water ...