A class taught by chemist Li-Qiong Wang teaches the molecular building blocks of artistic expression and enables students to make some art of their own along the way.

Google DeepMind will open its first research lab for discovering new materials, like those used in batteries or ...

The perception of a chemist varies. Some might imagine the "mad scientist" from old cartoons—a white-haired older man working ...

These days, we would call them proprietary blends. But in the late 1500s and early 1600s, individual alchemists called the ...

Water is all around us, yet its surface layer—home to chemical reactions that shape life on Earth—is surprisingly hard to study. Experiments at SLAC's X-ray laser are bringing it into focus.

Like Ghaskadbi, many researchers can trace their initial childhood interest in science to a gift. Dozens of readers of the Nature Briefing responded to our call asking about their favourite presents — ...

In a quiet corner of a European museum, a set of stained crucibles and dusty glassware has forced historians to redraw the timeline of chemistry. When scientists analyzed this medieval alchemist’s kit ...