The unspoken promise of new technologies is that they will advance and enhance our picture of the world — that goes double for the ones that are specifically designed to let us look closer at the ...

For today's organic chemists, analytical techniques have reached a level of sophistication that enables the structures of even the most complicated molecules to be determined quickly. By comparison, ...

The 1,2-oxaborine scaffold can be converted into a variety of different aromatic rings with relative ease, enabling chemists to vary molecular cores while keeping the peripheral groups mostly the same ...

Professor Carl Santesson was intrigued. In 1897, four women working in a Swedish tire-manufacturing plant exhibited similar, serious blood-clotting problems. Today, the condition would be recognized ...

In the 19th century, the scientific community puzzled over how the atoms in the mysterious compound benzene were arranged. This "aromatic" molecule soon proved to have a surprisingly simple structure: ...

As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Mark Levin started sketching out ideas for how to do something no chemist had ever managed before: swapping one of the carbon atoms in ...