You may have heard that you should try to avoid eating too many simple sugars, but what does that mean? What are simple sugars? Are simple sugars carbohydrates? To answer both questions: simple sugars ...

Liquids and solutions may seem simple, but at the molecular level they are constantly in motion. When sugar dissolves in water, for example, each ...

In plants, the space between cells is a key battleground during infection. To avoid recognition in this space, a strain of the bacterial tomato disease Pseudomonas syringae manipulates plants by ...

If Sébastien Vidal sees a mistake in a published chemical structure—a missing double bond or a hydroxyl group drawn in the wrong configuration—it “hurts my eyes immediately,” he says. Vidal, an ...