Scientists have synthesized methanetetrol, an elusive alcohol that could be the foundation of alien life. Chemists have ...

To make it, an international team of researchers built artificial space ice by freezing carbon dioxide and water at very low ...

By recreating extreme conditions found inside deep space interstellar clouds, scientists have produced methanetetrol, or C(OH ...

After finding 'impossible molecule' methanetriol, team reaches 'the final frontier' and detects methanetetrol after 100 years ...

Researchers have used single carbon atom doping to form four chemical bonds in one step. Gamma-lactams (cyclic molecules that are common in antibiotics) were easily synthetically accessible from ...

Last year, Li and her colleague Quang Luu, also at Iowa State University, unveiled a reaction sequence that replaces a carbon atom with oxygen, a change that can potentially improve a molecule’s ...