The forerunner event to ACS’s Chemistry Festival program celebrates 20 years of growing a well-rounded scientific community ...

What color is an atom? Since atoms are smaller than the wavelength of visible light, we can’t see them directly - but they ...

In a new study, chemists have developed a novel framework for determining how effectively carbon monoxide sticks to the ...

Ever wondered why banana candy doesn’t taste like bananas? Welcome to the weird, wonderful world of acetate esters molecules that trick your brain into tasting fruit that isn’t there.

Protein hydrolysates are mixtures of amino acids, peptides, and other small organic molecules derived from the controlled ...

So, say hello to the men who turned chemistry from Breaking Bad into Breaking Good. This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is actually pretty easy to get — and no, it doesn’t involve blue crystals or an ...

Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa, who shared this year’s chemistry Nobel prize with two other researchers abroad, would not have come up with an idea for a new kind of material with numerous ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to ...

The polymers around us are basically a disordered mess, with long chains of atoms tangled around each other. But starting around 1990, chemists began developing techniques that allow us to build ...

IF YESTERDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT of the Nobel prize in physics—for developments in quantum mechanics that helped give birth to quantum computers—was greeted with general bafflement, today Sweden’s Royal ...

The prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of an architecture that some chemists compare with a molecular sponge. By Alexa Robles-Gil and Ali Watkins ...