“Methanol formation is the major chemical pathway to complex organic molecules in interstellar space,” said Douglas Whittet of Rensselaer.

Finding the right partner to form complex molecules can be as hard for carbon atoms in space as for chronically single humans, but ice grains bring them together.

Molecules capable of forming the precursors to sugars and amino acids have been detected, for the first time, in the disk of ...

The working group has already identified protein molecules such as 'Sox10' that regulate the formation and preservation of myelin sheaths.

Molecular recognition is the formation of specific interactions between two or more molecules through non-covalent bonding, and has a crucial role in biological systems.

Webb Telescope reveals complex carbon molecules forming in the Bug Nebula, suggesting dying stars may seed the galaxy with ...

Scientists have investigated an intriguing form of self-assembly in liquid crystals: When the liquid crystals are filled into cylindrical nanopores and heated, their molecules form ordered rings ...

More than four billion years ago, Earth was a very different place. Pools of water froze and thawed in cycles, minerals ...

A specific protein inside cells senses threatening changes in its environment, such as heat or starvation, and triggers an adaptive response to help the cell continue to function and grow under ...