The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we've only identified 1% of them. Scientists believe undiscovered chemical compounds could help remove ...

A foundational chemistry concept found in textbooks for almost 100 years may have been taught incorrectly. Researchers say ...

Computational Chemistry is the study of complex chemical problems using a combination of computer simulations, chemistry theory and information science. Also called cheminformatics, this field enables ...

Tiny grains collected from asteroid Ryugu have revealed how nitrogen-rich compounds may have formed and survived in space ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a fast, simple way to turn lignin, a plentiful ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming scientific research, but science may also help build better AI. Researchers at the ...

otherwise processing primary metabolites and it is the unusual chemical that circumvents these mechanisms to cause toxicity. Secondary chemicals are by definition taxonomically restricted in ...

Scientists have unveiled a groundbreaking chemical process that could streamline the development of pharmaceutical compounds, chemical building blocks that influence how drugs interact with the body.

Science is frequently a collaborative discipline. But sometimes, one person, working alone, makes a stunning discovery that changes a scientific field forever. Neil Bartlett, while working alone in ...

What’s out there? It’s a question humans have been asking for as long as there have been humans. Our ancestors struck out across continents and oceans to make the unknown known. Now, we’re using ...