Over a feverish 10-day period, scientists synthesized and described a new class of carbon molecules, called buckminster ...

Scientists often struggle to explain their research to nonscientists, whether it’s at a cocktail party, on an airplane, or when speaking to a journalist. For Julie Rorrer, the struggle began with a ...

used a carbon monoxide molecule on the end of a metal tip to map a pentacene molecule. Click on the image to watch a video from NBC's "Nightly News." Scientists have traced the structure of a complete ...

Scientists at OIST have defied a foundational rule in chemistry by creating a stable 20-electron version of ferrocene—an organometallic molecule once thought to be limited to 18 valence electrons.