Much of science these days depends on "black (or beige) boxes," scientific instruments that invisibly analyze data and then, voilá, identify the chemistry and/or structure of a sample. While ...

Duplicates of crystal structures are flooding databases, implicating repositories hosting organic, inorganic, and computer-generated crystals. The issue raises questions about curation practices at ...

If journal citations measure a piece of work’s impact on the scientific community, then it’s clear what’s been most important to chemists during the past decade: molecular structural data. The ...