Sometimes a visually compelling metaphor is all you need to get an otherwise complicated idea across. In the summer of 2001, a Tulane physics professor named John P. Perdew came up with a banger. He ...

As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Mark Levin started sketching out ideas for how to do something no chemist had ever managed before: swapping one of the carbon atoms in ...

The world is awash with news about artificial intelligence tools, including those intended to help chemists. But are the tools useful, a threat, or even worth the attention? It’s hard to know, ...