Algae are increasingly being explored as sustainable "living factories" that can convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into ...

Discover 8 ocean creatures that can live without sunlight, from giant tube worms to hadal amphipods. Explore how these ...

Rice University chemists have found a new way to make neodymium, a rare-earth metal, interact with oxygen. Using a specially ...

Ultrafast X-rays revealed how a molecule converts absorbed light into motion in just trillionths of a second. Individual ...

Coordination chemistry is the study of compounds that have a central atom (often metallic) surrounded by molecules or anions, known as ligands. The ligands are attached to the central atom by dative ...

“Our study provides a new strategy for engineering biomimetic nanoreactors that increasingly replicate the sophisticated ...

Motor proteins power everything from muscle contraction to bacterial swimming. While replicating their chemically fuelled ...

New findings about an alien asteroid are out, and it’s all thanks to a New Jersey couple after an uninvited hazard crashed ...

He received a 1992 Nobel Prize for developing a theory that explained fundamental processes behind photosynthesis, respiration, oxidation and even how fireflies produce light.

Rudolph A. "Rudy" Marcus, Caltech's John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry and recipient of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, passed away on July 16, 2026, ju ...

Years before plants covered continents or animals roamed the surface of the planet, Earth’s atmosphere was almost entirely devoid of oxygen and gases like methane and carbon dioxide dominated the ...

A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home held prebiotic molecules and other "building blocks of life," astronomers said in a newly published paper.