Everything we can see and touch, and quite a lot that we can’t as well, is made of tiny particles called atoms. Some substances, like particles of this iron, contain only one kind of atom. Iron is an ...

You may have noticed that the rock formations are very different colors. The rock formations on the left are from Red Rock State Park in Texas, and on the right is El Capitan Mountain in Yosemite ...

Discover which is the most abundant element in the universe, along with list of other most common elements found on Earth.

A team of chemists has uncovered an unexpected way to use phosphorus to perform chemical reactions typically reliant on rare ...

Chemists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have tested a new approach for activating chemical reactions based on the element selenium. They demonstrated that selenium can form bonds similar to those of ...

A machine-learning model trained on fewer than 300 molecules has flagged diatomic pairs with record-high electric dipole moments, several of them in combinations that chemists had not seriously ...

Compound libraries are curated collections of chemical molecules used in drug discovery. A range of screening collections, ...

Earlier this week, NASA revealed that researchers have detected more organic compounds in the plumes of water jetting from the surface of Enceladus, the icy moon orbiting the planet Saturn. The new ...