The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. The probe would ...

A Florida State University chemist has developed a method to rapidly assemble significantly complex natural molecules with potential for biomedical applications, opening the door for novel drug ...

Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. The probe would follow its quarry, a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, for ...

Jupiter’s icy moons may have been seeded with the chemical ingredients for life from the very beginning. An international ...

Deep inside a dust-choked galaxy, astronomers have uncovered a chemical environment far more complex than expected.

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our own, thanks to the observing power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

Skeletal editing is a modern approach to chemical synthesis. By making precise alterations at the atomic level, researchers are able to directly convert existing drug scaffolds into new, biologically ...

A new review highlights how machine learning is transforming the way scientists detect and measure organic pollutants in the ...

Organic molecular beam deposition (OMBD) is a versatile technique for fabricating high-quality organic thin films and nanostructures with precise control over thickness, composition, and molecular ...