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 ...

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

The origins of life remain a major mystery. How were complex molecules able to form and remain intact for prolonged periods without disintegrating? A team at ORIGINS, a Munich-based Cluster of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.