For some years now, John McGeehan, a biologist and the director of the Center for Enzyme Innovation in Portsmouth, England, has been searching for a molecule that could break down the 150 million tons ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By creating bizarre, cage-shaped molecules with warped double bonds—structures ...

A US-based research team has developed a laser technique that enables individual molecules to change their shape, a step that may enable molecules to perform specific functions such as switching. The ...

Google LLC’s quantum division today released research showing that its Willow quantum chip can provide elegant and accurate simulations about the physical properties of molecules much faster than ...

Chemical bonds are forces that hold atoms together in molecules through shared electrons. The rules governing bonding and the shapes of molecules are often thought to be absolute. Geometries of double ...

The atomic structure of a small organic molecule can be revealed by atomic force microscopy. The atomic-scale architecture of a complicated small molecule has been deduced by scanning and 'feeling' it ...

Common in nature and found in DNA and amino acids, chiral molecules are asymmetric with a structure that’s different from its mirror image. Chiral amino acids are “left-handed” and cannot be swapped ...

This week, I noticed that a collection of servers, which can predict the shapes of RNA molecules, have been upgraded, and their new website looks great. Paste any RNA sequence into the University of ...

The Shapes of Organic Molecules The new Nobel prize in chemistry was given to men who showed that certain molecules can assume different shapes simply by rotations around single bonds. Such ...

Water is a familiar substance that is present virtually everywhere. The properties of the first few layers of water molecules in contact with the surface of materials (called 'surface water') are ...