Fledgling universities funded by kings and other leaders hired professors for their chemistry departments. Organic chemistry became a recognized discipline. These developments established an entirely ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

New nanomaterial passes the blood-brain barrier to reduce damaging inflammation after the most common form of stroke. When someone experiences a stroke, doctors must quickly restore blood flow to the ...

This was the Poole Logboat, a discovery that would fundamentally alter the understanding of maritime history in southern ...

This was the Poole Logboat, a discovery that would fundamentally alter the understanding of maritime history in southern Britain, ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking ...

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

Everything on Earth is made of atoms, most of which are closely packed together in the form of minerals. Life has its uses for minerals—ask a coral reef—but its essence lies in atoms arranged as ...

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed lunar soil and rock brought back from the far side by Chang’e-6 and found the possible answer.