Scientists accidentally create gold hydride under extreme pressure, revealing unexpected chemistry and insights into ...

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

Antibiotic resistance is turning routine infections into life threatening events, and the traditional pipeline for new drugs ...

The experiments follow up on an earlier study that identified 69 compounds that could disrupt possible interactions between viral and human proteins The team found that two kinds of compounds seemed ...

Helium, the gas that fills up our balloons, has a reputation as a chemistry lightweight—as an element that doesn’t react with much of anything. Researchers say they’ve used high pressure to coax ...

A pair of well-known marijuana compounds work in tandem to target ovarian cancer cells In A Nutshell CBD and THC killed ...

A team of scientists working to replicate the conditions of early Earth in modern lab experiments may have cracked one of the key problems in understanding how life began. They think they've found a ...

When you're cooking or cleaning inside your home, what chemicals are you breathing, and are they potentially harmful? Chemists have given us a solid start on the answer. A large, collaborative ...

Plant growth promotion induced by the antagonistic fungus, Pythium oligandrum, is the result of a complex interaction which includes an indirect effect through control of pathogens in the rhizosphere ...