Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A still of a slowed-down chemical reaction taken with a quantum computer. For the first time, scientists have directly observed a ...

Albert Einstein once said, "I see my life in terms of music." Perhaps inspired by his words, scientists at the Center for Self-assembly and Complexity (CSC), within the Institute for Basic Science ...

Living cells are sustained by countless chemical reactions that must be carefully regulated to maintain internal order and ...

As Percy Julian knew only too well, the synthesis of a chemical compound found in nature is a highly complicated process that can take years of research and experimentation. Beginning with a readily ...

Researchers in Belgium have unveiled a striking chemical reaction in which ripples along a frozen reaction front resemble the rays of a shining star. Publishing their results in Physical Review ...

Exactly how non-living molecules sparked into life is one of the most puzzling mysteries of science. Now scientists at Scripps Research have discovered a new set of chemical reactions that can produce ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Scientists have long suspected that a quantum phenomenon might play a role in photosynthesis and other chemical reactions of nature, but don’t know for sure because such a ...

Researchers demonstrate a chemical reaction produced through an intermediary created by a separate chemical reaction, findings that could impact environmental remediation and fuel production. A ...