UCLA chemists have found a big problem with a fundamental rule of organic chemistry that has been around for 100 years—it's ...

For exactly 100 years, chemists have considered double bonds impossible – or nearly so – in organic chemistry under specific ...

UCLA chemists have overturned a century-old rule in organic chemistry that limited molecular design by proving that ...

"It destroys creativity when we have rules that supposedly can't be overcome," the California-based researchers said.

In the 70 years that followed, scientists have tried solve the problem of understanding and sequencing proteins. The first ...

A new crystallization theory shows that the solvent, not the solute, controls crystal formation. This two-step process improves predictions of crystal growth and has practical applications in areas ...

Stereo Chemistry offers a deeper look at subjects from recent stories pulled from the pages of Chemical & Engineering News. Check out Laura’s story on how these computational chemists won this year’s ...

Dr. Kenneth Henry is the chemistry teacher at Coalinga College's Firebaugh Center. He's always looking for ways to challenge his students with real-life scenarios. "It's like a lot of time, I know ...

John Hopfield, one of this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics, is a true polymath. His career started with probing ...

Physical chemist Giacinto Scoles, Princeton’s Donner Professor of Science, Emeritus, died in Sassenheim, the Netherlands, on ...

While some people are all about a spark, others prefer a 'slow-burn.' Experts explain why slow-burning can be healthy—and how ...

If David Nagib wasn’t an organic chemist, he would’ve been an architect. Nagib’s passion for both fields stems from a ...