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The Largest Molecule Ever Made Could Be Used to Deliver Drugs
Organic chemists in Switzerland have built a ginormous virus-sized macromolecule — it has 170,000 bond-forming chemical reactions — calling it...
Where International Standard Units Come From, Part Four: The Mole
All this week, the origin and continued preservation of five of our favorite standard units of measure
Supernovae Might Be Directing Life’s Development Throughout the Universe
A special property of Earth’s organic molecules could be caused by supernovae, a new study says — suggesting that life’s...
Test Uses Handedness of Molecules to Search For Life On Other Worlds
Many of life’s building blocks, such as amino acids, sugars and other molecules, are chiral — meaning they come in...
Molecule-Sized Computer Mimics Human Brain At Work
A team of researchers from Japan and Michigan have built a molecular computer whose operation mimics a human brain. The...
Most Flawless Diamonds Ever Are Meant for Lasers, Not Rings
Scientists need the diamonds to build the next generation of X-ray lasers
Ultra-Powerful New Microscope Displays Molecules and Cell Movement In Real Time
For scientists studying the smallest components of life, microscopes have always had frustrating limitations. Electron scanning microscopes can see very...
IBM Scientists Take First Close-Up Image of a Single Molecule
As part of a greater effort to someday build computing elements at an atomic scale, IBM scientists in Zurich have...
