The same compound in a common household clothes detergent shows promise as a treatment to preserve muscle tissue after severe injury. Researchers at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's ...

A new approach to an established reaction boosts the ability to synthesize vinylic ethers—key building blocks for many ...

The same compound in a common household clothes detergent shows promise as a treatment to preserve muscle tissue after severe injury. Researchers hope the oxygen-generating compound could one day ...

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Nitrate is a nitrogen-oxygen compound naturally found in soil, water, and some foods. Most of the nitrate you're exposed to comes from eating food and drinking water that contains the chemical.

A non-invasive treatment is helping cancer survivors who suffer from the side effects of radiation.

A new approach to an established reaction boosts the ability to synthesize vinylic ethers - key building blocks for many molecules important to human health.

The landmark synthesis of a xenon compound in the early 1960s dispelled a long-standing myth about the reactivity of the noble gases — and opened the door to the rich chemistry of these elements ...

Chemists have been able to show for the first time that anaerobic bacteria can produce the vitamin ergothioneine in the absence of oxygen. This suggests that bacteria were forming this compound ...

Scientists from the Rosetta mission have found oxygen in the atmosphere of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a discovery that could change our understanding of how the solar system formed.