A new study reveals that roasted coffee contains previously unknown compounds capable of inhibiting a key enzyme linked to blood sugar control. Scientists have identified three compounds that strongly ...

MIT scientists have achieved the first-ever lab synthesis of verticillin A, a complex fungal compound discovered in 1970. Its delicate structure stalled chemists for decades, despite differing from ...

The fungal compound verticillin A, discovered more than 50 years ago, has long been regarded for its potential ...

Matter is made up of very small parts called atoms. Atoms can combine in different numbers and in different ways to make different molecules. Atoms and molecules make up all of the different ...

Inside your cells, mitochondria keep you alive by turning food into usable energy. Researchers from the University of ...

A chemistry collaboration led to a creative way to put carbon dioxide to good -- and even healthy -- use: by incorporating it, via electrosynthesis, into a series of organic molecules that are vital ...

Changing the chemistry of a compound is difficult by itself, but modifying materials only a few atoms thick is its own challenge. A group of University of Chicago scientists announced an innovative ...

Indian astronomers using James Webb Space Telescope data have detected complex hydrocarbon molecules in the planet-forming disk of a young star, offering insights into early planet formation ...

The first “atoms” in the universe were not atoms at all—they were just nuclei that had not found electrons yet. The simplest nucleus, that of common hydrogen, is a bare proton with no frills. When the ...