The MIT assistant professor is entranced by the beauty she finds pursuing chemistry.

Biologists devise an efficient method to prepare fluorescently tagged proteins and simulate their native environment.

A molecule that’s known for its smelly and poisonous nature on Earth may be a sure-fire sign of extraterrestrial life.

New technique for observing reaction products offers insights into the chemical mechanisms that formed them.

Researchers develop a method to isolate and sequence the RNA of T cells that react to a specific target.

Extremely large electric fields can prevent umbrella-shaped ammonia molecules from inverting.

Materials could be useful for delivering drugs or imaging agents in the body; may offer alternative to some industrial plastics.

MIT-developed method may lead to portable devices for making the disinfectant on-site where it’s needed.

New system could free bench chemists from time-consuming tasks, may help inspire new molecules.

Method for collecting two electrons from each photon could break through theoretical solar-cell efficiency limit.