Chemistry

A new device that combines chemistry and synthetic biology could prove key to renewable fuels and even chemicals—and combating climate change

The criminal justice system’s reliance on DNA evidence, often treated as infallible, carries significant risks

Researchers say carbon storage sites should be tested for microbial life, which could potentially convert CO2 to methane—a more potent greenhouse gas. Christopher Intagliata reports.

A stratified science project from Science Buddies

Globules move around, ingest others, leave waste—and could hold clues to origins of cells

Remnants of a beer-making operation some 5,000 years old have been found in northern China.

Scenes from The Hunger Games 2 and Walking with Dinosaurs caused viewers to vent particular compounds

Many red-colored birds have to convert yellow pigments in their food into the red pigments that make their feathers and beaks so brilliant.

Chemists generate variations on erythromycin in "daring" synthesis

Synthetic polymerase is a small step along the way to mirrored life-forms

Imprinted polymers capture chemicals in sweat that cause body odor

Caltech theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll talks about his new book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. (Dutton, 2016)