2016: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart and Bernard L. Feringa were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

From capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or sucking water out of dry desert air, the trio's new form of molecular ...

The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry ...

"Complex chemical reactions" discovered in fresh ice grains from Saturn’s moon Enceladus renews hopes that it may harbor life ...

Earlier artificial leaves relied on synthetic catalysts or inorganic semiconductors that degraded quickly or contained toxic elements such as lead. The new version replaces these with organic ...

Once thought of as just an icy satellite, Enceladus -- one of Saturn's 274 moons -- may be one of the few places in the solar system able to support life.

APF-80, enables the crystalline sponge method to capture and analyze nucleophilic compounds. Alkaloids, a diverse group of ...

A research team led by Prof. Chu Yannan at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has uncovered a new way to detect cancer early—by analyzing the invisible chemical ...

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and ...