Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...

Scientists from Germany and Italy have uncovered details of the protective layer that surrounds the fine protrusions of cells ...

Northwestern Medicine investigators have uncovered new insights into how intercellular "glue" functions to enable ...

Researchers named the compound “berkelocene” because it is comparable to the compound “uranocene,” a uranium-containing ...

A breakthrough in heavy-element chemistry shatters long-held assumptions about transuranium elements. Researchers have ...

The pioneering nuclear chemist Glenn Seaborg discovered berkelium at Berkeley Lab in 1949. It was one of many achievements ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Catching Aromaticity in the Act: Direct Real-Time Tracking of How 'Excited-State Aromaticity' Drives Molecular Shape Changes Mar. 12, 2025 — Scientists have achieved the first real-time ...

They include very small molecules, such as urea, and complex structures, such as Taxol. As they may only be isolable in small quantities, have interesting biological activity and chemical ...

It seeks to explain biological function in terms of molecular structure, dynamics and organization, from single molecules to supramolecular structures. The authors use single-molecule calorimetric ...

The ACS Scholars Program awards renewable scholarships to undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups in the chemical sciences, majoring in chemistry-related disciplines, and ...

In focused research groups, students and faculty within WPI’s Chemical Engineering Department go beyond the classroom to solve real-world problems, continuing to make discoveries in areas like ...