The Taurus Molecular Cloud (TMC-1) imaged by the Herschel Space Observatory. (Credit: ESA/Herschel/NASA/JPL-Caltech; acknowledgement: R. Hurt, JPL-Caltech; CC BY-SA 3 ...

There is more than one way to describe a water molecule, especially when communicating with a machine learning (ML) model, says chemist Robert DiStasio. You can feed the algorithm the molecule's ...

Ultrashort bursts of laser light are giving scientists a way to freeze one of chemistry’s most elusive moments, the instant ...

Verdazyl radicals represent a unique class of stable organic radicals, distinguished by their robust tetrazinyl core and open‐shell electronic structure. Their inherent stability, combined with ...

The world's most expensive infrared spectrometer - the James Webb Space Telescope - is unearthing extraordinary exoplanet ...

A nanoscale junction forces molecules into reactive configurations, allowing a small voltage to catalyze a chemical ...

Scientists at the University of Chicago and partner institutions have developed molecular qubits compatible with standard telecommunications networks—a key step toward a future “quantum internet.” The ...

Biology is full of molecular machines, such as motor proteins and ATP synthase, that operate self-sufficiently through cycles of oxidation and reduction. A team of human chemists at the University of ...

Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry hold a model of a metal-organic framework during the 2025 prize announcement in Stockholm on October 8. Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP via Getty Images Three ...

Open Molecules 2025, an unprecedented dataset of molecular simulations, has been released to the scientific community, paving the way for the development of machine learning tools that can accurately ...