A team led by Professor Shoichiro Asayama at Tokyo Metropolitan University has synthesized a charge-free molecule designed to sneak plasmid DNA into living cells via hydrogen bonding, dramatically ...

A new study describes a technique that rejuvenates aging blood-forming stem cells and could help reduce the risk of age-related blood disorders.

When cancer-driving proteins resist various treatments, Northwestern University scientists have uncovered a new solution. Don ...

NYU scientists are using light to precisely control how tiny particles organize themselves into crystals. Their research, published in Chem, provides a simple and reversible method for forming ...

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

Researchers at Flinders University in Australia have developed a new thermal imaging lens made from recyclable polymers that costs less than 1 cent per unit in raw materials, a figure that could ...

Cornell researchers have uncovered a built-in molecular "gate" that controls the production of the molecule nitric oxide, a crucial signaling molecule throughout biology that in humans helps regulate ...

A version of this Priestley Medal address will be presented at the American Chemical Society Spring 2026 meeting ...

Smoke from wildfires can alter grapes and affect the taste and sensory experience of wine. Researchers are applying a calcium spray to grapes to see if the treatment can protect the fruit from smoke ...

Science is a subject built on doing. Students learn chemistry through titrations, biology through dissections, physics ...

Scientists have many theories about how Earth's raw materials turned into living cells, but a new proposal is particularly ...

Experiments reveal that unsaturated lipid membranes promote vesicle fusion and DNA retention during freeze–thaw cycles, highlighting icy environments as potential drivers of protocell evolution. Today ...