Explore 25 chemical reactions that broke reality, challenging science and reshaping our understanding of the universe.

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I love to bake and eat depression cake. It was invented during the Great Depression in the 1930s, when some cake ingredients – like eggs, milk and butter – were hard to get. The recipe makes fluffy ...

Chemical reactivity lies at the heart of understanding molecular transformations, and Conceptual Density Functional Theory (CDFT) provides a robust framework for quantifying and predicting such ...

The enzyme RNA polymerase (RNAP) carries out transcription, copying DNA into RNA. It's the first step in gene expression, and ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers are building out the repertoire of chemical reactions, using light. In a paper published in the journal Nature, chemistry professor Yang Yang and collaborators at the ...

Six Northwestern researchers published a paper April 15 detailing how plasma can be used in a reaction to convert methane to ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new chemical reaction allows ...

Chromone derivatives represent a versatile class of compounds whose unique reactivity underpins the development of complex heterocyclic architectures with significant biological, photophysical and ...

A ring of beads connected to tentacles A modeling study shows how chemical reactions can stimulate motion in simple systems, like the structure here—made of enzyme coated beads connected to ...

When we consume foods containing sugar and starch, they are converted into energy in the body's cells through a process called glycolysis. However, this process has a downside—it produces byproducts ...

The brain has its own immune system, which detects threats and mounts a defense. A growing body of evidence has shown that in ...