Instant scholar - Inside Nobel laureate Omar M Yaghi’s PhD thesis: How vanadium clusters laid the foundation for molecular architecture

In 1990, long before he became one of the most cited chemists in the world for his pioneering work on Metal–Organic ...

Direct signal analysis helps solve 50-year-old problem in molecular fluorescence analysis

Last year, we celebrated 50 years since the first papers on fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) were published. It ...

Asteroid near Earth detected hours after it passed the planet

The Paris-based European Space Agency says a near 10-foot-wide asteroid passed Earth 265 miles above Antarctica but was not detected until hours after it was gone.

New Insights into the Molecular Basis of Ataxia

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, identified a receptor that plays a crucial role in stress-induced motor ...
UC San Diego Today

Inside UC San Diego’s Out-of-This-World Impact

At Scripps Institution of Oceanography, geophysicist Vashan Wright analyzed data from NASA’s InSight lander, co-authoring a ...
Scientific American

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy and Clean Up the Environment

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing “metal-organic ...

Unlocking the molecular blueprint for a powerful plant-based drug

Researchers at UBC Okanagan have uncovered how plants produce mitraphylline, a rare natural compound that may help fight ...
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Architects of a New Kind of Molecular Structure Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...

Molecular discovery that won Nobel Prize in chemistry is likened to ‘Harry Potter’ enchanted handbag

University of California, Berkeley scientist Omar M. Yaghi shares Nobel Prize in chemistry for “groundbreaking discoveries" ...

UC Berkeley scientist shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for molecular discoveries

Three scientists, including a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, have won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ...

Trio Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Work on Molecular Construction

The scientists developed structures that can be used to harvest water from desert air, capture carbon dioxide or store toxic gases.

Molecular discovery wins Nobel Prize in chemistry

Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry Heiner Linke makes a demonstration, next to Secretary General of the Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, and Member of the Nobel ...