Authorities said on Dec. 16 that they launched a homicide investigation after a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old ...

Matthew D. Shoulders, a leading expert in protein folding and engineering, has been appointed head of MIT’s Department of Chemistry, effective January 16, 2026. A MacVicar Faculty Fellow and Broad ...

STOCKHOLM — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their development of metal–organic frameworks that could eventually help reduce pollution and combat climate change. A ...

The prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of an architecture that some chemists compare with a molecular sponge. By Alexa Robles-Gil and Ali Watkins ...

A trio of scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” a form of molecular architecture that packs vast amounts of space into tiny ...

Organic farming has gathered pace in the last few years, with 98.9 million hectares being managed organically across the world by the end of 2023, according to The Organic Research Centre. This was a ...

Even for 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry co-laureate Moungi Bawendi, “science is hard” and sometimes involves repeatedly banging your head against the wall. Last Thursday, Bawendi, a professor of ...

Jeffrey Grossman has a lot of strong opinions about coffee. But the thing he hates most is when people microwave it. “My dad nukes his coffee all day,” Grossman says. “And I’ve always told him, ...

Had Robert Burns Woodward lived to see his 100th birthday this week—on April 10—one wonders what the famed organic chemist would have thought of 2017. Renowned for his elegant and bold total syntheses ...

Enrollment for Black and Latino students dropped at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the first class formed after the Supreme Court found race-conscious admissions in colleges ...