A Portuguese professor explores the poisons and potions of opera.
A Portuguese professor explores the poisons and potions of opera.
A new show at New York’s Museum of Art and Design celebrates olfaction and the science behind modern perfume making.
Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka take this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry for revealing the receptors through which cells sense their environment.
Chemists are already finding ways to circumvent a new federal law cracking down on marijuana and methamphetamine mimics.
Silk impregnated with bleach may provide a new way to fight the formidable spores of the anthrax bacterium.
A laboratory head faces criminal charges after one of his researchers died in a lab fire in 2008.
Elements 110, 111, and 112 on the periodic table are officially named.
An alternative form of an enzyme involved in the glucose metabolism pathway protects cancer cells from oxidative stress.
Chemists design the first electrically-driven motor made from just one small molecule.
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