Organic solar cells are made from conductive polymers, which makes them cheap, light, and flexible. However, one drawback is ...

The 2021 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to two scientists who developed new tools for building mirror-image molecules — enabling new drugs to be created in a more environmentally friendly ...

Amid growing debates about the benefits and risks of studying looking-glass versions of life’s building blocks, there is an urgent need to bridge divergent views. Prohibiting the creation of molecules ...

Drugs can convert between different isomers in the body, leading to unexpected effects. Dmitrii Guzhanin/iStock via Getty Images The effects a drug or chemical compound have on the body depend on how ...

The ribosome is one of the most iconic machines in molecular biology—a complex structure that reads a recipe written in RNA to assemble amino acid building blocks into new proteins. Ting Zhu of ...