A new quantum computing protocol may be able to augment a standard technique for understanding molecules in chemistry, ...

The structure of semi-crystalline polymers largely depends on how strongly their molecular chains are entangled. Following numerous experiments, researchers developed a new model to predict the ...

Polymers are extensively used throughout industry, whether as naturally occurring materials like starch and cellulose, or synthetic commodities like nylon, polystyrene and polyethylene. Polymer ...

Scientists want to find a use for PageRank in the world beyond the web. Chemistry is a science of links. Atomic units, made into more than they are by attractions and connections and bonds, all in a ...

Tuberculosis is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide, infecting about one-quarter of the world's population. Although it is treatable, the rise of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis poses a ...

When the antibiotic bedaquiline was introduced in 2012, it was the first new tuberculosis drug in over 40 years. Bedaquiline quickly became the key drug in all standard drug-resistant tuberculosis ...

Organic semiconducting materials based on polymers and molecular systems containing an electronically delocalized structure are the basis of emerging optoelectronic technologies such as plastic solar ...

A new discovery about how cells make antibodies has revealed the surprisingly random way the body's immune system defends against infection and disease. A new discovery about how cells make antibodies ...