A new perspective published in Science presents a modular strategy that could change how small molecules are designed, assembled, and...

Lithium-metal batteries have long promised a dramatic leap beyond today’s lithium-ion technology. By replacing the graphite anode with metallic lithium,...

For decades, one of chemistry’s most useful molecular linkages has also been one of its most frustrating. Dialkyl ethers—molecules in...

Air travel’s climate footprint has made sustainable aviation fuel one of the most urgent engineering challenges in modern transportation. Researchers...

Proteins are nature’s master builders. Folded into intricate three-dimensional shapes, they can recognize one another, assemble into molecular machines, and...

August 19, 2026 — A small spacecraft could one day sweep past the Moon, a near-Earth asteroid, and Mars’s moon...

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has long been described as one of Earth’s great climate engines: a vast...

A new strategy for building carbon–carbon bonds could give synthetic chemists a more precise way to modify one of the...

Researchers in Japan have developed a molecular construction system that uses two chemically powered biomolecular machines to build interconnected DNA...

Nitrenes are among chemistry’s most useful and most difficult-to-control intermediates. These nitrogen-centred species can insert into carbon–hydrogen bonds, add across...