How to understand exoplanets — space scientists call on lab-based chemists to help
In the 30 years since exoplanets were first reported1, telescopes have revealed thousands of them. One of the…
“This Contradicts a Rule in Chemistry”: Unexpected Discovery Reveals ‘Impossible’ Molecular Combinations Could Exist on Saturn’s Moon Titan
Impossible molecular combinations are possible on Saturn’s moon Titan, say researchers from NASA and Sweden’s Chalmers University of…
Nabsys Highlights OhmX™ Platform’s Ability to Accurately Verify Structural Variants in Undiagnosed Disorders and Workflow Optimizations at American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2025 Annual Meeting
Newswise — PROVIDENCE, R.I., Oct. 15, 2025 — Nabsys 2.0, LLC (Nabsys), a pioneer in electronic genome mapping technology,…
AI is dreaming up millions of new materials. Are they any good?
When the pioneering artificial intelligence (AI) firm Google DeepMind announced almost two years ago that it had used…
US scientists bring quantum-level accuracy to molecular modeling
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a new method that brings quantum-level accuracy to molecular modeling,…
New project to pioneer the principles of human genome synthesis
An ambitious new research project, SynHG (Synthetic Human Genome), is aiming to develop the foundational and scalable tools,…
Optimization of absorption coefficient of quantum dot structures for infrared spectroscopy
The basic cell of the proposed QD structures is made up of multi-layers, modeled here as ten layers,…
How should ‘mirror life’ research be restricted? Debate heats up
Some researchers are developing biological systems that create mirror-image versions of DNA and other molecules crucial to life.Credit:…
Scientists Finally ‘See’ a Proton Move Through Water, and It Only Took 200 Years
For over two centuries, scientists have known that water transports a positive charge through protons. But they had…
Scientists Turned Plastic Trash Into a Material That Eats Carbon
Experts estimate that the global production and disposal of plastics emits nearly 2 billion tons of greenhouse gases…
Scientists discover needle-shaped quantum clusters
When most people think of gold, they picture jewelry or treasure. However, at the atomic scale, gold behaves…
Chemists cram record nine metals into trendy 2D material
Chemists have doubled the members of a family of buzzy 2D materials, and even jammed a record nine…