By measuring an 11-atom molecule with a stunningly powerful X-ray laser, researchers have seen the way its atoms make slight, ...

Especially if that atom is a nitrogen. Over 80% of small-molecule drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration between 2013 and 2023 had a nitrogen-containing ring somewhere in the structure.

For seaside communities reducing their pollution, nitrogen is a prime target. Often found in agricultural runoff and human ...

“Astronomers have been searching for molecular nitrogen in interstellar clouds for decades,” said George Sonneborn, FUSE project scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

Scientists at OIST have defied a foundational rule in chemistry by creating a stable 20-electron version of ferrocene—an ...