Researchers have captured how a molecule redistributes energy after absorbing light, differentiating the roles of individual ...

A group of astronomers has detected a sugar molecule swirling inside a cloud of gas and dust near the centre of our galaxy.

Scientists have identified a sugar molecule named erythrulose in interstellar space. This complex molecule was found in a gas ...

Progress in chemistry is often gradual, with some of its most important advances taking years—sometimes decades—to unfold. A ...

In a study published in Science Translational Medicine, a team of researchers led by Dr. Wang Yu from the Shenzhen Institutes ...

Scientists have developed a new way to watch how individual atoms inside a molecule behave after the molecule absorbs light, ...

It’s the first time a sugar molecule has been detected in interstellar space. The discovery provides tantalizing new clues ...

A molecule is a group of atoms bonded together. Molecules make up nearly everything around you – your skin, your chair, even your food. They vary in size, but are extremely small. You can’t see an ...

A new type of all-carbon molecule has been studied under normal room-temperature conditions. This marks only the second time this has ever been done, after spherical buckyballs were synthesised 35 ...

Water molecules are so attracted to each other that even after the balloon pops, the water molecules stay together keeping the shape of the balloon. In the water molecule, the oxygen and hydrogen ...