How do molecular catalysts - molecules which, like enzymes, can trigger or accelerate certain chemical reactions - function, and what effects do they have? A team of chemists at the University of ...

Transforming lead into gold is an impossible feat, but a similar type of "alchemy" is not only possible, but cost-effective too. Three Penn State researchers have shown that certain combinations of ...

Now, based on insights from mussels--which are able to attach themselves very tightly to even metallic surfaces due to special proteins found in their byssal threads--scientists from RIKEN have ...