Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de Astrobiología, part of ...

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Attaching amino acids to a hydrophobic organic molecule allows them to self-assemble into rare, knotted structures with ...

Scientists have uncovered three nitriles in lab-made interstellar ice that could serve as new targets for astronomers ...

Organic chemistry is packed with rules about structure and reactivity, especially when it comes to making and breaking ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded in equal parts to Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for developing way of “snapping molecules together” that can be used ...

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Click chemistry is a field in which molecular building blocks snap together. Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wednesday for their work in making molecules "click." Two Americans, K.

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Members of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry address a press conference to announce the winners in Stockholm on October 5, 2022. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten ...