Scientists identified the mechanism by which a sea cucumber molecule inhibits sulfatase-2, an enzyme that’s often upregulated ...

A series of compounds featuring fused six-membered silicon rings represents a step up in complexity for the class of structures known as ‘ladder molecules’. The team that created them states that the ...

Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll ...

Controlling regioselectivity remains one of the major challenges in hydrocyanation. When an unsymmetrical alkyne undergoes this reaction, it typically yields a mixture of regioisomers. This ...

Complex organic molecules have been detected in a galaxy located more than 12 billion light-years away using the James Webb Space Telescope. CNN values your feedback 1.

Organic molecules — compounds containing carbon — abound on Earth, especially in the bodies of living things. They’re often called the building blocks of life, and for good reason: Carbon atoms can ...

The complex organic molecules they observed using the space observatory’s Mid-Infrared Instrument included acetic acid, a component of vinegar, and ethanol — otherwise known as alcohol.

Nora Hänni, a chemist at the University of Bern, has been identifying and analyzing the complex organic molecules detected in comet 67P by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe.

New research shows how a simple molecule called ortho-benzyne helps form more complex organic molecules deep inside a frigid gas cloud. The team says it plays a small but critical role in creating ...