For decades, chemists have tried to train computers to predict how different molecules can be synthesized, but existing approaches use ‘shortcut’ algorithms that are unreliable when the target is ...

Sum-frequency generation (SFG) is a powerful vibrational spectroscopy that can selectively probe molecular structures at ...

For the first time, scientists have captured how complex molecules change shape when exposed to UV light—an ultra-fast ...

Atoms never stay still. Even in their lowest energy state, they vibrate due to quantum effects. Now, for the first time, scientists have directly observed this jittery movement in a complex ...

Ten years ago, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe pulled up alongside a dusty, icy lump the size of a mountain. The probe would follow its quarry, a comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, for ...