If you think of a single atom as a grain of sand, then a wavelength of visible light—which is a thousand times larger than ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" ...

The periodic table is one of the triumphs of science. Even before certain elements had been discovered, this chart could successfully predict their masses, densities, how they would link up with other ...

Half a decade ago, chemist Mark Levin was a postdoc looking for a visionary project that could change his field. He found inspiration in a set of published wish lists from pharmaceutical-industry ...

Scientists have developed a new method that can help them probe inside atom’s nucleus. Developed by researchers at MIT, the ...

Chemists offer two new methods to develop a way to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a molecule. The findings could make it easier to develop new drugs. For years, if you asked the ...

As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Mark Levin started sketching out ideas for how to do something no chemist had ever managed before: swapping one of the carbon atoms in ...

Photochemistry provides a pathway to swap the oxygen atom in oxetane rings with nitrogen, carbon or sulfur at a single stroke. The resulting structures, such as azetidines and thietanes, are usually ...

The reason for copper's unique properties comes down to the configuration of its electrons. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Wires ...

Today’s column concerns another highly oxygenated target, novofumigatonin, whose recent total synthesis by Erick Carreira and ...