As modern warfare weaponizes the very air we breathe, chemists should leverage their skills and knowledge to detect, neutralize, and reclaim toxic atmospheres in the world’s most devastated conflict z ...

A new review of recent studies shows the great apes rely on medicinal plants to heal infections, but the plants’ chemistry ...

“Lead to gold is one of those things that the experiment was not designed for,” Takaki tells Newscripts. The LHC was designed to smash lead ions into each other, but the ALICE researchers found that ...

During cognitive decline, lithium is sequestered into amyloid plaques; treatment with the metal reverses symptoms ...

Companies that broker and facilitate scientific fraud are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, according to a new study.

We may be on the cusp of a new era of biochemical discovery, but turning these advancements into drugs isn’t so easy ...

Nature will begin publishing all peer review comments. Other journals should follow suit ...

F or a chemistry undergraduate focused on synthesis, pivoting to a PhD in physics is a bold move. But that’s exactly what Sascha Feldmann did—unlocking a research career that fuses materials ...

The tendency of Nobel Prizes to recognize solo scientists in privileged spaces needs some reflection Victor Ambros and Gary ...

P atterns on a tropical fish might not seem like a chemistry problem, but Ankur Gupta has a knack for seeing—and describing—how the rules of physical chemistry explain the world around us.

Explore Graphics Periodic Graphics Periodic Graphics A chemistry infographics collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, chemistry educator and author of Compound Interest.

A nything synthetic chemicals can do, biological systems can do better. That mantra is at the heart of Ariel Furst ’s research. By combining the power of biology with chemistry and materials ...