Uranium enrichment concentrates one specific type of the atom to create a substance that can generate massive amounts of energy.

Rising seniors Avani Ahuja, Julianna Lian, Jacqueline Prawira, and Alex Tang are honored for their academic achievements.

Chemical manufacturing is an energy-intensive industry. A team of chemists is designing a technique that could power the necessary reactions with sunlight or LEDs.

Health influencers – perhaps including Health Secretary RFK Jr. – are promoting the chemical as an elixir that improves memory and focus. But evidence for these claims is thin.

In 2013, the Vatican released their recipes for conclave smoke.

MIT chemists found a way to identify a complex sugar molecule in the cell walls of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the world’s deadliest pathogen.

The MESA method uses ecological theory to map cellular diversity and spatial patterns in tissues, offering new insights into disease progression.

Chemists could use this quick computational method to design more efficient reactions that yield useful compounds, from fuels to pharmaceuticals.

They could one day turn purple.

A new method lets users ask, in plain language, for a new molecule with certain properties, and receive a detailed description of how to synthesize it.