Rove beetles are among the chemists of the insect world, concocting noxious compounds within their bodies that are weaponized to ward off predators, enabling the beetles to survive in leaf litter and ...

An entirely new class of super-reactive chemical compounds has been discovered under atmospheric conditions. Researchers have documented the formation of so-called trioxides -- an extremely oxidizing ...

Piperlongumine, a chemical compound found in the Indian Long Pepper plant (Piper longum), is known to kill cancerous cells in many tumor types, including brain tumors. Now an international team ...

The genetics of pepper, Capsicum, makes for fascinating science. Not only are peppers separated by type into sweets, bells, or hots; they are also organized into 26 wild species and five domesticated ...

Matthew Addicoat receives funding from EPSRC and the Royal Society. The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them.

Elemental analysis offers scientists a method of determining the elements present in an organic compound, and in what quantity. Various fields of science rely on this type of analysis for research, ...

The discovery shows how studying marine biodiversity can enhance biomedical research. Emily Leclerc The cyanobacteria species that produces gatorbulin-1, tentatively identified as Lyngbya confervoides ...

Martin Clasby receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and Michigan Drug Discovery. Modern drug discovery is an expensive and complicated process. Hundreds of scientists and at least a ...