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Chemists just broke a decades-old barrier that prevented them from making certain useful molecules. By releasing electrons directly into solution, they've unlocked reactions that could lead to new life-saving drugs and advanced materials.
Scientists use aquarium-style LED lights to build complicated drug molecules in half the time. The breakthrough could help researchers create more effective medicines faster.
Researchers at IIT Bombay just solved a decades-old chemistry puzzle that could make life-saving drugs faster, cheaper, and more accessible. Their breakthrough turns common fatty acids into complex molecules in a fraction of the time it used to take.
Researchers found a new form of bismuth vanadate by watching chemical reactions unfold step by step instead of just examining the end result. This breakthrough could improve solar fuel production and battery technology for clean energy.
Scientists recreated the extreme conditions inside a nuclear fireball and discovered that our safety models have been missing key chemical reactions. Their findings could make nuclear event predictions far more accurate.
Researchers in Germany invented a light-powered method to create tiny "housane" molecules that could revolutionize drug development. The breakthrough makes it easier to build the same type of strained molecular structures found in medicines like penicillin.
MIT chemists have discovered and isolated dioxaborirane, a new boron-oxygen molecule once thought too unstable to exist. This breakthrough could unlock powerful new tools for creating medicines and capturing greenhouse gases.
After decades of doubt, chemists at UC Riverside have confirmed a 1958 theory by creating a stable "impossible" molecule from vitamin B1 in water. This breakthrough could revolutionize how we make medicines using safer, greener methods.
A PhD student in India just recreated mysterious blue spheres that could explain how life began on Earth, reviving the forgotten work of a husband-wife chemistry team from the 1960s. Their groundbreaking discovery might change what we look for when searching for life on other planets.
Chemists just invented a completely new type of molecule that twists itself into a shape nobody thought was possible. This breakthrough could unlock fresh ways to design everything from life-saving drugs to advanced electronics.
After five decades of failed attempts, German chemists have finally created a silicon-based aromatic molecule that could revolutionize plastics and materials manufacturing. A Japanese team independently achieved the same breakthrough, publishing their results together in Science.
Scientists discovered that strong electric fields completely flip water chemistry rules, making splitting water easier through disorder rather than energy. This breakthrough could revolutionize how we produce clean hydrogen fuel.