Chemists at Scotland’s Edinburgh University said Wednesday they have built molecules that can move objects larger than the size of an atom in an advance in the technology that deals with manipulating ...

Researchers are continually looking for new ways to hack the cellular machinery of microbes like yeast and bacteria to make products that are useful for humans and society. In a new proof-of-concept ...

Chemical reactions have their own "impatient molecules." Unable to stay still even for a moment, they latch onto other ...

In drug discovery, building complex molecules quickly is the name of the game. Chemists want molecules with increasingly three-dimensional atomic structures because they may be more potent and ...

You may have heard the phrase "we are made of star-stuff." This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact that elements heavier than hydrogen and helium were forged in the centers of ...