Scientists sought hints about how our solar system came to be—and about the origin of one class of molecules in particular. Organic molecules—compounds containing carbon—abound on Earth ...

Lipids are hydrophobic or amphiphilic small molecules that include sterols, waxes, fatty acids and phospholipids, and are insoluble in water and soluble in organic solvent. Biological lipids are ...

When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we also see in the tiny world of molecules.

The amphiphilic nature of the carrier materials results in high affinity with the plant ... A study reported that montmorillonite-smectite clay minerals can carry herbicide molecules in their layered ...

Center for Integrative Petroleum Research, College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Petroleum Engineering ...

Organic and Carbon Nanomaterials Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan ...

Some of the cell's RNA molecules, researchers found, help regulate antiviral signaling. These signals are ...