Remember building model molecules with balls and sticks in chemistry class? You have J. Robert Oppenheimer to thank for that, ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has turned up the largest organic molecules ever detected on the surface of Mars, a result that pushes ...

You may have heard the phrase “we are made of star-stuff.” This statement by the astronomer Carl Sagan refers to the fact ...

Microscopic pinwheel structures made from symmetric molecules control the handedness of emitted light, offering a simpler ...

Capturing carbon or storing hydrogen to combat global warming requires compressing gases into sponge-like porous materials.

Turns out, changing the way atoms and molecules are arranged in a substance can give it new and fascinating properties.

Most sensors are designed to do only one thing: detect what passes through them. But what if a sensor could do more? To create a new generation of technology, researchers have looked to living systems ...

A molecule is a group of atoms bonded together. Molecules make up nearly everything around you – your skin, your chair, even your food. They vary in size, but are extremely small. You can't see an ...