"Each new detection brings us closer to understanding the origins of complex organic chemistry in the universe — and perhaps, the origins of the building blocks of life themselves." ...

Once one of the most difficult colors to recreate in paint, blue was only available to medieval artists, for example, by ...

Urea is considered a possible key molecule in the origin of life. ETH researchers have discovered a previously unknown way in ...

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Nature Reviews Chemistry An opinion piece on AI in Chemistry Education by Alan Spivey, Becky Greenaway, Kim Jelffs and Sophia Yaliraki is published in Nature Reviews Chemistry R.L. Greenaway, K.E.

The compound exhibits gut-restrictive pharmacokinetic (PK) profiles and favorable safety in preclinical studies. It demonstrated significant anti-colitis activity at lower doses through restoration of ...

Atom-scale maps of template chemistry offer a detailed view of the chemical interactions at an organic mineral template, and suggest that elements other than Ca 2+ may be important in defining the ...

The Prize medal depicts the Scottish chemist Thomas Graham, the first president of the Chemical Society. In 1980, the Chemical Society and the Royal Institute of Chemistry, together with the Faraday ...

But this enzyme specifically creates only one of the two products. In chemistry this property is called stereospecificity – it is particularly important for the generation of precursor molecules for ...

According to Olexandr Isayev, associate professor of chemistry at Carnegie Mellon and head of the lab where the model was developed, this breakthrough is due to developments in machine learning.