Three cheap hygroscopic salt solutions on carbon nanotube sensors distinguish nine toxic gases, including warfare agents, without engineered receptor molecules.

After nearly 50 years of failed attempts and scientific speculation, chemists at Saarland University have achieved what many ...

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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 ...

Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance, but scientists developing open-source tools are left guessing how to achieve similar results.

The modern poison has become less a medieval cliché than a geopolitical signature flourish.

A new bio-inspired molecule captures solar energy and releases it as heat on demand, outperforming lithium-ion batteries.

Learn the key differences between road salt and ice melt products to choose the most effective and safe deicer for your home.

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 ...

A long-standing chemistry challenge has been solved with the synthesis of a five-atom silicon aromatic ring. The breakthrough validates decades of theory and points toward new industrially relevant ...

European leaders have concluded that the Russian politician Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison in 2024 because he “was poisoned with a lethal toxin,” epibatidine.