Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have reconciled two closely related but contentious mechanisms underlying ...

Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Plant names might sound like a chaotic mix of Latin, local legend, and old-school guesswork, but there’s actually a pretty [… ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

UF engineers, backed by DARPA and NASA, are perfecting laser-forming techniques that let metal sheets fold themselves into ...

Waste gases from China’s huge industrial clusters offer another opportunity for turning CO 2 into chemicals. That’s the ...

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses.

We present a high-throughput, end-to-end pipeline for organic crystal structure prediction (CSP)─the problem of identifying the stable crystal structures that will form from a given molecule based ...

An experimental rationalization of the structure type encountered in DNA and RNA by systematically investigating the chemical and physical properties of alternative nucleic acids has identified ...