Physicists have now demonstrated a particle accelerator so small it fits inside a single molecule, shrinking one of science’s ...

Solar panels made from silicon already adorn rooftops and vast fields around the world—but they are reaching their ...

Talk about twisted science! This year, chemists reached new heights of knottiness with “perplexanes,” entangled molecules with fiendishly complex topology (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, DOI: ...

As global temperatures climb, a critical but often-overlooked component of our ecosystems is stepping into the spotlight: ...

Water behaves differently when trapped in microscopic spaces instead of flowing freely. Researchers have shown that this confined water becomes “highly energetic,” influencing how molecules bind ...

In the waters off South Korea, a modest sea sponge produces a molecule so unusual that chemists spent 14 years trying to make ...

The atypical structure of the radium monofluoride molecule allows physicists to search for answers to some of the universe’s ...

Constructing out-of-equilibrium molecular assemblies that deviate from thermodynamic equilibrium is a central challenge in ...

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University, Japan), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne, Australia) and ...

Yale chemists have synthesized a complex, potentially cancer-fighting molecule found in sea sponges discovered off the coast of South Korea.

Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster ...