The solvent dichloromethane, or DCM, is commonly used to strip paint and cut grease. It's also what generations of chemistry students have used to dissolve pain reliever tablets in a lab exercise ...

Scientists have discovered that bacteria living inside tumors can produce a molecule that fights cancer and enhances chemotherapy. The molecule, called 2-methylisocitrate (2-MiCit), was found to make ...

Salty, nutty and irresistibly sweet, caramel can be made in minutes from just a small mound of plain old sugar. To show us how, we turned to the professionals for advice, going to the University of ...

The world’s oceans are Earth’s largest carbon sink, storing about 140 times more carbon than the atmosphere. But the oceans are reaching their limits. The more carbon the oceans absorb, the more ...

In a quest to develop new antiviral drugs for COVID-19 and other diseases, a collaboration led by scientists at The Wertheim UF Scripps Institute has identified a potential new drug against the virus ...

Company researchers unveil LEGION, designed to search chemical space around targets, then protect discoveries from fast patenting by rivals.

MIT chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be used for applications such as generating clearer images of tumors.

Northwestern University professor Hande Ozdinler is hoping to change how ALS is treated, saying the disease is too complex for a single drug.

MIT chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be used for applications such as generating clearer images of tumors.

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

The new study, led by pharmaceutical microbiology researcher Dirk Hoffmeister, from Friedrich Schiller University Jena, discovered that mushrooms can make psilocybin in two different ways, using ...

Previous research suggests that brown dwarfs should contain phosphine—which forms when phosphorus combines with hydrogen—given the conditions of their atmospheres. But past observers failed to find a ...