On the far right side of the periodic table, just beneath oxygen, sits a lesser-known group of elements called the chalcogens ...

A new approach reveals unexpected ways oxygen can bind to rare metals. Iron plays a central role in how the body uses oxygen. In hemoglobin, it binds dioxygen, a pair of oxygen atoms, allowing blood ...

Professor Dayne Swearer found that bursts of plasma convert methane into methanol without high heat and pressures.

How can a drug be released or activated exactly where and when it is needed in the body? For many treatments, particularly in ...

Computational Chemistry is the study of complex chemical problems using a combination of computer simulations, chemistry theory and information science. Also called cheminformatics, this field enables ...

In a paper just out in Nature Synthesis, researchers led by Prof. Timothy Noël of the University of Amsterdam's Van 't Hoff ...

Food science isn’t just for the lab. It’s something we experience every day. The Maillard reaction, simply put, is when food such as steak or bread turns brown. It happens when proteins, which are ...

When interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was first examined in detail last summer, its gas cloud was swimming in carbon dioxide, ...