Scientists created half-Möbius molecules, similar to the Möbius strips common in math classes, but half as twisty. It’s a type of topology, or geometrical structure, that is new to molecules, ...

A new study has uncovered how an exceptionally scarce protein can orchestrate the assembly of large-scale gene-silencing structures inside cells, and what happens when that process breaks down. The ...

A team at IBM Research has assembled a strange new ring-shaped molecule that bends around like a more complicated Möbius strip ...

A new NASA analysis concludes that it is "reasonable to hypothesize" that living things could have formed the odd organic ...

A ring of 13 carbon atoms and two chlorine atoms has a remarkable molecular structure that means you would have to go around the loop four times to return to your starting position ...

Minor changes in moisture level can promote lipid molecules to reorganize themselves in biomaterial or biomembranes. This can ...

By fine tuning the motion of molecules, scientists created an injectable therapy that encouraged the growth of neurites and ...

Multiphoton microscopy is used in biomedical research to study cells and tissues. Today, so-called two-photon microscopy is used to study processes within cells, but the technique has limitations in ...

In chemistry, molecules with a "flat" geometry are often stable enough to support a wide range of reactions. But in the quantum world, that's not technically true.

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope detected water vapor and carbon-rich molecules from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after it ...

When cell samples stained with these molecules are examined using two-photon microscopy, the molecules behave as if they were ...

A new study of carbon-based molecules in a Martian rock offers new hints about the possibility that the red planet once ...