The basic molecules that make up all living things have a predetermined chirality or "handedness," similar to the way people are right or left handed. This chirality has a profound influence on the ...

A glass of water has more molecules than there are stars in the night sky. That’s what I found out from my friend Qiang “Jack” Zhang, an assistant professor of chemistry at Washington State University ...

In an experiment that mimics astrophysical conditions, with cryogenic temperatures in an ultrahigh vacuum, scientists used an electron gun to irradiate thin sheets of ice covered in basic molecules of ...

Surely but slowly, scientists are learning the structure of the basic molecules of life. They are gradually discovering how those molecules perform their exquisitely delicate and extraordinarily ...

University researchers recently acquired molecule products from bacteria through activating “silent genes.” The molecules have potential use for drugs but need further research. Silent genes are genes ...

The simple molecule carbon monoxide (CO) can be used as the starting point for synthesizing a specific organic compound called anionic ketenes, according to research from Germany’s Ruhr University ...

In a system with self-replicating molecules -previously shown to have the capability to grow, divide and evolve - chemists from the University of Groningen have now discovered catalytic capabilities ...

All the basic structures in animals, plants as well as microorganisms are made up primarily of three basic classes of molecules: These are important for life and metabolism helps organisms in breaking ...

Acidic and basic molecules are antagonistic, and keeping them in their place is no easy job — unless, it seems, one unites them under the tutelage of ordered, nanoporous materials known as ...

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

ARGONNE, Ill. (December 1, 2008) — The basic molecules that make up all living things have a predetermined chirality or "handedness," similar to the way people are right- or left-handed. This ...