Swapping out one letter in a word can entirely change its meaning. Similarly, swapping one atom in a molecule can completely change its identity. A group of chemists with the University of Chicago has ...

The new generative AI system RFdiffusion3 designs proteins and nucleic acids atom by atom, producing functional enzymes and ...

Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" within a molecule. Typically, experiments to probe the inside of atomic ...

Control of heat transport in nanostructures is of central importance for numerous modern technologies—from high-performance computer chips that need to be cooled to energy converters—and is a highly ...

Researchers at The University of Osaka have developed a rhodium-catalyzed reaction that uses a single carbon atom from a PINC ...

Researchers demonstrated the simplest possible chemical reaction by using optical tweezers to bring together two atoms to form a molecule. Researchers have built a single molecule by bringing together ...

A molecule is two or more atoms connected by chemical bonds, which form the smallest unit of a substance that retains the composition and properties of that substance. Molecules form the basis of ...

This image depicts the radium atom’s pear-shaped nucleus of protons and neutrons in the center, surrounded by a cloud of electrons (yellow), and an electron (yellow ball with arrow) that has a ...