New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

Solvation theory investigates the energetic and structural effects when solutes interact with surrounding solvent molecules, providing a fundamental framework to understand processes as diverse as ...

Quantum similarity and density functional theory (DFT) constitute complementary approaches that provide deep insights into the electronic and structural properties of molecules. At its core, quantum ...

For more than half a century, many biologists have leaned on the neutral theory of molecular evolution to explain how DNA and ...

ANN ARBOR—For a long time, evolutionary biologists have thought that the genetic mutations that drive the evolution of genes and proteins are largely neutral: they're neither good nor bad, but just ...

Several compounds do not exhibit linear molecular geometry due to the presence of lone pairs of electrons on the central atom ...

According to VSEPR theory, an AX3E molecule has a tetrahedral electronic geometry. This means the four electron pairs (three bonding pairs and one lone pair) are arranged in a tetrahedral shape around ...