Chemical and structural methods will go hand in hand into the future of macromolecular structural biology on all levels. Determining structures of large molecular assemblies by methods including ...

Is it possible to tile a surface with a single shape in such a way that the pattern never repeats itself? In 2022, a mathematical solution to this 'Einstein problem' was discovered for the first time.

Scientists have identified a new property, interface flexibility, that controls how certain molecules naturally self-organize into crystalline supramolecular networks. This significant discovery could ...

When scientists develop new molecules—whether for the purposes of agriculture, species control, or life-saving drugs—it's ...

Antimony is widely used in the production of materials for electronics, as well as metal alloys resistant to corrosion and high temperatures.

The new structure incorporates chemical groups called sulfonates to make it compatible with water, allowing it to function in real-world water systems, like rivers or wastewater. It uses a natural ...

A new lawsuit claims that a hairstylist developed bladder cancer from working with a dye chemical for decades. The answer: quite possibly. Even more intriguing, the dye itself is harmless—but its ...

The material resembles medieval chainmail at the molecular level and could be used ... The material contains 100 trillion chemical bonds per square centimeter (around 650 trillion per square ...

(1,2) The ability to efficiently and accurately predict peptide or protein structures and properties would ... FPs and MACCS keys can embed useful information about molecular “fragments” or chemical ...

Organic solvents, such as acetone, do not work in this situation ... to solve these problems and offer the opportunity to reveal near-atomic structures of proteins with a small molecular weight (<100 ...