Science fiction stories are chock full of terraforming schemes and oxygen generators for a very good reason—we humans need molecular oxygen (O2) to breathe, and space is essentially devoid o... Read more
Engineered bacterial enzymes provide easy access to strained molecular structures rarely seen in nature. Caltech scientists have created a strain of bacteria that can make small but energy-p... Read more
Light initiates many chemical reactions. Experiments at the Laser Centre of the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw’s Faculty... Read more
‘This is a really special reaction, one that we all dream about doing’ — Mu-Hyun Baik As organic chemistry evolved, techniques for catalyzing hydrocarbons advanced and one... Read more
This is really just the beginning of a new branch of chemistry . . . A collaboration between researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Innsbruck has developed a completely new way of... Read more