University of Delaware's Richard Wool wins Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.

Networks of nanometer-scale machines offer exciting potential applications in medicine, industry, environmental protection and defense, but until now there’s been one very small problem: the limited capability of nanoscale antennas fabricated from traditional metallic components.

Salk scientists have uncovered a missing step in how cells make a class of compounds that include commercially important drugs and flavor molecules.

If recent news that University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) researchers observed the largest gamma ray burst ever has you nervous about getting blasted into extinction by a massive burst from space, the UAH researchers have good news.

Newest Project in Applied Physics Laboratory's Cubesat Initiative.

Record power-conversion efficiency at Los Alamos from quantum-dot sensitized photovoltaics.

Drilling in Japan Trench by international scientific team finds unusually thin, slippery geological fault.

Looking for better materials for solar cells, LEDs, and other technology, one molecule at a time

Richard Martel and his research team at the Department of Chemistry of the Université de Montréal have discovered a method to improve detection of the infinitely small. Their discovery is presented in the November 24 online edition of the journal Nature Photonics.

CfA study finds tablets make perfect platform for 3-D simulations.

Institute for Molecular Engineering to help anchor Chicago’s effort to become high-tech hub.

A chemical system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago can efficiently perform the first step in the process of creating syngas, gasoline and other energy-rich products out of carbon dioxide.