The universe is packed with intricate, carbon-based compounds, including organic molecules, that hold clues about life’s raw materials. Some of these compounds are found in space. Over the past few ...

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Scientists have discovered a remarkable way to destroy cancer cells. A study published last year found stimulating aminocyanine molecules with near-infrared light caused them to vibrate in sync, ...

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Scientists sought hints about how our solar system came to be—and about the origin of one class of molecules in particular. Organic molecules—compounds containing carbon—abound on Earth ...

Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them, scientists have shown. Stanford Medicine scientists have designed a way to make our ...

These hypothetical organisms get their name from how their molecules would face the opposite way to those in the cells of all existing life—akin to the mirrored shapes of our left and right ...

However, the process by which fungi synthesize some of their most potent compounds remains opaque ... has never been described before. Elucidating the process required systematically turning ...

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The dwarf planet Ceres – credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA In 2017, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft sent data back to Earth from the dwarf planet Ceres, located in ...