Basic biology textbooks will tell you that all life on Earth is built from four types of molecules: proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids. And each group is vital for every living ...

University of Florida researchers harness the full power of the HiPerGator supercomputer to show that molecules can be formed naturally in the right environment. Basic biology textbooks will tell you ...

Korean researchers have succeeded in simultaneously filling the microscopic gaps that degrade next-generation solar cell ...

Chemists and chemical biologists just keep dreaming up new ways to interfere with biomolecules. That research frequently leads to promising potential medicines, and there are more and more flavors of ...

If you want to build a habitable planet, ice is a key ingredient. The ice can be found in enormous clouds in the Universe and it is the main carrier of the necessary elements such as carbon, hydrogen, ...

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

Much of the world we see around us is made up of complicated molecules. If you go to the store, virtually everything you see—every bottle of nail polish, every bag of lawn fertilizer, and every ...