The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows. The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according ...

Seeing chemistry unfold inside living cells is one of the biggest challenges of modern bioimaging. Raman microscopy offers a ...

Though carbon dioxide is a waste product of combustion, it can also be a potential feedstock for the production of fine and commodity organic chemicals provided that an efficient means to convert it ...

Chemists at UCLA are showing that some of organic chemistry’s most famous “rules” aren’t as unbreakable as once thought. By ...

Plaster of Paris is a quick-setting gypsum plaster consisting of a fine white powder. The white powder hardens when moistened ...

Most natural diamonds have ages between 1 billion and 3.5 billion years. Diamond is the only gem with a single element. Do ...

CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) is a natural gas stored under high pressure. It is lighter than air and ideal for vehicles due ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) is starting the new year with a new president. On 1 January 2026, Mary Garson, professor emerita of chemistry at the University of ...

While we refer to substances by their common names in everyday life, all these substances have a chemical name and a chemical formula that scientists and researchers use. The system of chemical naming ...