A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the ...

In the heart of our galaxy, scientists have discovered the largest sulfur-bearing molecule ever detected beyond Earth, with ...

Chemistry students are taught that some molecular shapes are so strained they simply cannot exist. For about 100 years, one ...

Tryptophan does far more than help us sleep—it fuels brain chemistry, energy production, and mood-regulating neurotransmitters. But as the brain ages or develops neurological disease, this delicate ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic ...

Scientists may have found an unexpected way to break down “forever chemicals”—by borrowing chemistry from failing lithium-ion ...