An international team of scientists from IBM, The University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL and the ...

When Richard Feynman first conceived of quantum computers in the 1980s, he believed they should primarily investigate quantum ...

Radiative association processes are fundamental mechanisms underpinning the formation of molecules in diverse astronomical environments. In these processes, two reacting particles—typically atoms or ...

The formation of stars is intricately linked to the complex structure and dynamics of molecular clouds—vast, cold, and dense regions in the interstellar medium that primarily consist of molecular ...

A Florida State University chemist has developed a method to rapidly assemble significantly complex natural molecules with ...

What if everything scientists ever thought about the universe’s earliest chemical reactions was wrong? Recent tests have turned decades of theory on its head, showing that the first molecular ...

Scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally self-organize into crystalline supramolecular networks. This significant discovery could ...

The transition from simple chemistry to the complex biology of molecules that gave rise to life is a puzzle that scientists have been trying to solve for ages. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Molten carbon can form into either diamond or graphite. A new study shows how graphite can sometimes form even under conditions that should lead to diamond. (Getty Images) The graphite found in your ...

Published today in Science, the discovery marks the creation and observation of the first molecule with a half-Möbius ...