A naturally occurring dietary compound has been linked to biological signs of slower aging. Higher levels of theobromine in ...

Canadians learned how plants make a rare natural substance—mitraphylline—with its potential for fighting cancer as a ...

A new method to capture carbon dioxide from the air has been developed at the University of Helsinki's chemistry department.

In a striking demonstration of automated chemistry, researchers have used a robotic synthesis platform to rapidly generate ...

Imagine looking through a fogged-up car window. You can see shapes and movement on the other side, but everything is blurry, the colors muted. Now imagine if that’s what the world looked like every ...

Matthew Addicoat receives funding from EPSRC and the Royal Society. The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them.

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck ...

We often wonder what life and environmental conditions would be like on other planets. Scientists have speculated scenarios both similar to what we have on Earth and also completely different from ...

The identification of promising lead compounds from high-throughput screens is still a very complex problem. A new high-throughput assay for identifying aggregation-based false positives could help.

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...