A new species of ant discovered in Borneo fends off invaders with a uniquely suicidal strategy.

The chemist examined the role of activated oxygen molecules in biological processes.

Scientists take a close look at metal alloys that form snowflake-like structures called crystalline dendrites.

Isabella Karle has passed away at age 95. 

Reactions that generate fundamental components of the cell run smoothly in microdroplets, study shows.

Chemistry Nobel goes to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson. 

Out of 25,000 features originally detected by metabolic profiling of E. coli, fewer than 1,000 represent unique metabolites, a study finds.

Philip Coppens, who developed photocrystallography, has passed away at age 86.

Lloyd Conover, a longtime chemist at Pfizer, pioneered the concept of chemically altering natural antibiotics to create new drugs.