Titan’s harsh chemistry breaks basic rules, offering new clues about how life’s building blocks might form in space.

We've had divine intervention in the Lakrisal investigation. Or rather, professional scientific intervention. Ever since we tried Lakrisal for the first time, we've been plagued with nagging questions ...

Oxford Univ. Press: 2009. 426 pp. £34.99. Fritjof Capra's The Tao of Physics was published just as I started college, and although I'd like to say it seduced me away from bench chemistry and into ...

In this feature, molecules are depicted in two ways. Methane, for example, is written out as CH 4. This shows that the molecule consists of one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen. The molecule ...

Correspondent. "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours" Tracy Smith is an award-winning correspondent for "CBS News Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours," who joined CBS News in 2000. Smith has covered a ...

For example, the Nobel prize in economic science, awarded this week, underlined the importance of funding basic research.