PRIMETIMER

Scientists detect a complex sulfur molecule in interstellar space for the first time

Scientists report the first confirmed detection of thiepine, a complex sulfur-bearing molecule, in an interstellar cloud near the Milky Way’s center.
Morning Overview on MSN

Scientists find space molecule that could reveal how life first sparked

In the crowded, turbulent heart of the Milky Way, scientists have picked out a fragile pattern of atoms that could help ...

Strength-in-numbers X-ray technique can map previously unattainable atomic structures

For many decades, the method to obtain atomic-level descriptions of chemical compounds and materials—be it a drug, a catalyst ...
The Debrief

Discovery of Ring-Shaped Molecule in Deep Space Impacts Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have spotted the largest complex molecule in deep space ...

Vibrational spectroscopy technique enables nanoscale mapping of molecular orientation at surfaces

Sum-frequency generation (SFG) is a powerful vibrational spectroscopy that can selectively probe molecular structures at ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Architects of a New Kind of Molecular Structure Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry hold a model of a metal-organic framework during the 2025 prize announcement in Stockholm on October 8. Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP via Getty Images Three ...
Futurism

Scientists Tweaked LSD’s Molecular Structure and Created a Wild New Brain Drug

A team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, made small tweaks to the molecular structure of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to see if it could be turned into an effective ...
New Atlas

AlphaFold 3 unlocks a new scientific era, mastering 'all of life's molecules'

Google DeepMind's groundbreaking new AI predicts not only the structure of proteins, ligands, DNA, RNA and "all of life's molecules," but how they'll interact. It promises a radical, revolutionary ...