Tar cooked from birch bark by two Stone Age methods held back the growth of Staphylococcus aureus in laboratory dishes, ...

Water molecules do not stay still. They are always moving around, colliding with surrounding molecules, and gradually ...

Researchers in Hefei have engineered pyridinic nitrogen and carbonyl sites on hard carbon anodes to direct anion transport, ...

Pavan Subramani, a 17-year-old Indian-American student from West Virginia, has received a $25,000 Davidson Fellows ...

Nomura expects the Reserve Bank of India to deliver another 25-basis-point rate hike in December, taking the repo rate to ...

Henri Kagan and Kensō Soai designed chemical reactions producing only one of the two mirror-image forms of a molecule—an important finding for the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and other biological ...

Many molecules come in two mirrored forms—like left and right hands—but living organisms generally contain only one. However, ...

Life is remarkably selective. Life relies on many molecules with what is termed “handedness”—they’re chemically identical but are mirror images of each other. Most chemical reactions will make a 50/50 ...

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and ...

The Nobel Committee recognized them for “the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.” ...

“Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai have provided a solution to a chemical mystery that is over a century old: how homochirality can ...