The arrangement of small molecules—known as ligands—around transition metal atoms affects how the metal atoms behave. This is important because transition metals are used as catalysts in the synthesis ...

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced ...

What happens when a quantum physicist is frustrated by the limitations of quantum mechanics when trying to study densely ...

While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical ...

Butanol molecules trigger changes in a microbial cell membrane model in this illustration of research that used neutron ...

University of Queensland scientists have cracked a long-standing puzzle in nuclear physics, showing that nuclear polarization ...