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Science reveals why some people attract far more mosquitoes, from skin chemistry to compounds linked to disease.

Every first-year organic chemistry student learns early on about the inductive effect, which describes how certain atoms’ ...

Two new skeletal editing techniques offer a way to create an array of nitrogen-containing rings. Nitrogen heterocycles are ...

The catalytic hydrogenation of carboxylic acids—the reduction of R–COOH functionalities to alcohols or hydrocarbons under a hydrogen atmosphere—stands at the interface of sustainable chemistry and ...

Despite being one of our key senses, the molecular mechanisms of smell remain poorly understood. Mason Wakely sniffs out the ...

The study, led by researchers from Cornell University and the University of Edinburgh, tested whether microorganisms could ...

What attracts mosquitoes more reliably than blood type is carbon dioxide. Mosquito antennae can detect a CO2 trail from up to ...

Late blight control in potatoes is becoming an increasingly complex balancing act, as growers face a shrinking fungicide ...

An experiment on the International Space Station has shown bacteria and fungi can harvest valuable elements from space rocks.