Wilkins and Franklin used X-ray diffraction as their main tool -- beaming X-rays through the molecule yielded a shadow picture of the molecule's structure, by how the X-rays bounced off its ...
The discovery of a four-ring carbon molecule in a distant interstellar cloud may help to reveal how our own solar system formed An asteroid has helped researchers discover the largest molecule ever ...
Most people at the time thought the gene would be protein, not nucleic acid, but by the late 1940s, DNA was largely accepted as the genetic molecule. Scientists still needed to figure out this ...