“If life ever appeared on Mars billions of years ago… chemical traces of this ancient life could still be present today for us to detect,” analytical chemist Caroline Freissinet of the French National ...

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...

Researchers synthesized weird molecules that exist in three dimensions, breaking Bredt's rule and helping to develop future ...

By exploring the properties, structures, and reactions of organic molecules, organic chemists can develop new materials, including drugs, fuels and plastics, and probe the underlying chemistry of life ...

Scientists at the Institute of Science Tokyo (Science Tokyo) have successfully realized the highly selective asymmetric 1,6 ...

A doctoral researcher in Australia has successfully recreated cosmic dust inside a laboratory, offering a new way to study how the chemical foundations of life may have formed long before Earth ...

Recreating cosmic dust may help answer questions about how meteorites hitting Earth came to contain the organic matter that they do ...

Industrial development of COFs is not as advanced, but companies involved with MOFs are keeping an eye on them. Ben Hernandez, the CEO of Numat Technologies, which has been developing MOFs for ...

The vibrant colors in our clothes and consumer goods often come at a heavy environmental price. Organic dyes are notorious water pollutants ...

The electrodes are coated with carbon nanotubes. As they flow through the reactor, the reactants interact weakly with the carbon nanotubes, exposing them to the electric field. This induces electronic ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.

Common ocean bacteria struggle to divide when conditions change, reshaping how warming seas affect ecosystems.