On Saturn's largest moon, Titan, molecules that would never mix on Earth are mixing together, seemingly defying a fundamental rule of chemistry.

Who introduced the pasteurization of milk?” and I can pretty well guarantee that the answer will be: “Louis Pasteur.” I know ...

Innovative and far-reaching discoveries such as better electric batteries, carbon capture technologies, renewable plastics and improvements in solar cells are just a few of the research areas being ...

Astronomers now understand that water-rich planets can form internally, even close to stars. A new study reveals that ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object ever spotted, travelling over 130,000 mph and carrying chemical signatures older than our Sun ...

A team led by an astronomer from the University of Maryland has, for the first time, detected large complex organic molecules frozen in ice beyond the Milky Way, providing new insight into the ...

The brewing process takes raw cereal grain – usually from barley – and converts its starch and proteins into simpler chemicals by malting. Brewers initiate this process by adding water, which wakes ...

Scientist James Watson, who shared a Nobel prize for helping discover the double-helix shape of the DNA molecule, has died.

At Mountain Fresh Creamery in Clermont, Georgia, that childlike wonder comes rushing back with every lick, and suddenly you’re eight years old again, watching with wide eyes as creamy deliciousness ...

A computational method accurately predicts the optimal ligand for a photochemical palladium catalyst, enabling new radical reactions of alkyl ketones. Ketones are common components in many organic ...

Frozen complex organic molecules have been discovered for the first time around a young protostar in a galaxy other than our ...

Organometallic chemistry is the study of the synthesis, structure and reactivity of chemical compounds that contain metal-carbon bonds. These compounds are often used as homogeneous catalysts.