Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University, together with their colleagues from China, have proposed a universal approach ...

Astronomers have identified erythrulose, a four-carbon sugar found naturally in raspberries, inside a cloud of gas and dust ...

Scientists were searching for a simpler sugar when radio telescopes instead revealed the first true sugar ever confirmed in ...

Researchers have designed a peptide that prevents the deadly misfolding of alpha-synuclein, the protein behind Parkinson’s and some dementias. In lab and animal tests, it stabilized the protein and ...

Across structural biology research, understanding oligomeric state is essential for determining molecular function and advancing drug discovery. Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a metabolic disorder caused by ...

Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in part on a quantum computer. There was, ...

When things vibrate, they make sounds. Molecules do too, but at frequencies far beyond human hearing. Chemical bonds stretch, bend, and twist at characteristic rates that fall in the infrared region ...

When things vibrate, they make sounds. Molecules do too, but at frequencies far beyond human hearing. Chemical bonds stretch, bend and twist at characteristic rates that fall in the infrared region of ...

Scientists have discovered the largest organic molecule containing sulfur — a key ingredient for life — ever identified in interstellar space. The researchers call the discovery a “missing link” in ...

This whopping piece of molecular architecture incorporates 2,712 atoms across 12 identical macrocycles held together by 144 hydrogen bonds (Nature 2025, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08266-3). It’s not the ...

Let's be honest, we're all drama queens sometimes. Whether you're texting your bestie you're “literally dying” over the latest celebrity gossip or declaring on social media that Monday mornings are ...