While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into ...

Highly reactive organometallic reagents, like organolithiums (molecules with a carbon–lithium bond) are essential reagents in ...

Even one percent plastic in a sample can distort ocean carbon numbers, making young carbon read as ancient and affecting climate research.

Researchers find that cosmic dust acts as a catalyst, helping simple space gases form key molecules that may jump-start ...

This year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists — Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi — for the ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found something astonishing. Dust and rock collected from the asteroid Bennu ...

Tiny organic molecules could become powerful allies in the fight against “forever chemicals,” according to a new study that ...

Researchers have discovered that microplastics floating in rivers, lakes, and oceans continuously leak a complex mixture of ...

Enzymes are essentially biological catalysts. They are proteins that speed up chemical reactions in the body that would ...

Born in Jordan to a Palestinian family, the chemist has become the first Saudi national, and the second Arab born laureate, ...