The forest surrounding the wreck of the Soviet-era Chornobyl power plant is expected to remain unsafe for human habitation ...

Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a new way to convert abundant carbon dioxide (CO2) into formate (HCO2-), an ...

As we celebrate the anniversary of benzene's isolation, we must remember that scientific centenaries carry additional agendas ...

A novel suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution.

Catalysts facilitate crucial chemical reactions in nature and industry alike. In a subset of them, catalytic activity is triggered by light. For example, when iron pentacarbonyl—a molecule in ...

Researchers have observed hydrogen and deuterium molecules in tiny spaces called picocavities using advanced spectroscopy. This study reveals unique differences between the molecules due to ...

Scientists at EPFL and AstraZeneca have developed a method to map the atomic-level structure of amorphous drugs, demonstrated on a GLP-1 receptor agonist candidate for diabetes and obesity treatment.

Unfortunately, researchers often only have access to samples of very small crystallites, or atomic clusters, in the form of powder or suspended in solution. In these cases, the X-ray patterns contain ...

"Water is a fluid molecule, but it still has structure," Han said. "The mutation in the peptide might lead to a more structured arrangement of water molecules around the mutation site.

100-year-old crystal mystery cracked by US scientists; could unlock next-gen batteries. When only tiny, imperfect nanocrystals are available, crystallography falls short, leaving the structure of ...