A research team led by Professor Shuichi Hiraoka at the University of Tokyo and Professor Masanori Tachikawa at Yokohama City ...

Raman optical activity, long thought to require chiral molecules or magnetic order, has been demonstrated in an achiral, ...

A research group has developed a new method for selectively synthesizing three-dimensional macrocycles,⁽¹⁾ in which four ...

The Amazon rainforest responded to the most severe drought ever recorded in the basin with an unexpected defense mechanism.

Scientists find never-before-seen chemicals in Amazon rainforest air during a record drought, revealing how trees respond to ...

Curiosity found organic molecules on Mars that were so compelling that scientists used a rare process to analyze them.

Small molecules have critical roles at all levels of biological complexity and yet remain orphans of the central dogma. Chemical biologists, working with small molecules, expand our understanding of ...

A molecule is a group of atoms bonded together. Molecules make up nearly everything around you – your skin, your chair, even your food. They vary in size, but are extremely small. You can’t see an ...

Heating a substance makes its atoms and molecules move faster. This happens whether the substance is a solid, a liquid, or a gas. It’s not easy to see it happen in a solid but let’s try it for a ...

Researchers revealed that molecular transport through fluctuating nanoscale pores is governed not only by pore size, but also ...

The research group of Associate Professor Yasutomo Segawa and Assistant Professor Takashi Harimoto at the Institute for ...