Sir Fraser Stoddart, who has died aged 82, was a phenomenally inventive Scottish-born scientist who shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with the Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage and the Dutch ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable way to destroy cancer cells. A study published last year found stimulating aminocyanine molecules with near-infrared light caused them to vibrate in sync, ...

Researchers at Rice University are developing “molecular jackhammers” that go inside the body and kill cancer cells by vibrating trillions of times per second. Their research has been tested in lab ...

Light-driven molecular motors were first developed nearly 25 years ago at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. This resulted in a shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry for Professor Ben Feringa in ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, British-born Fraser Stoddart and Dutch scientist Bernard “Ben” Feringa on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing minuscule machines ...

Three scientists won a Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for advances in a field that has big hopes for very tiny machines -- the smallest ever built. Frenchman Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Scottish-born ...

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Nanomachines might be in their infancy as far as consumer goods, but they're real enough to have attracted the attention of the Nobel committee. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry today for developing the world’s smallest machines, work that could revolutionize computer technology and lead to a new type of ...