While Boyce’s crystal may be the largest single crystal of copper sulfate, students at the Kurfrüst-Ruprecht-Gymnasium in Germany hold the record for overall size. Their polymorphic crystal reached a ...

Athletes excluded for first time for materials doping with 'forever chemicals' since the prohibition took effect three years ...

While many academics balance more than one role, some take on entirely separate jobs that allow them to explore different careers ...

Sudip Parikh, head of largest US science organisation, describes how the nation's research community has gone from 'turmoil' upon Trump's re-election to 'rupture' today ...

A key negative feedback in models of anthropogenic climate change is that more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere means ...

A strand of RNA just 45 nucleotides long has been discovered to perform two key reactions required for self-replication. The ...

Counter-intuitive finding suggests particle formation from natural and anthropogenic organic compounds might increase during extreme heat events ...

Join us on 24 March to discover how retrosynthesis software, paired with application programming interfaces, can accelerate route design, virtual screening and practical synthesis decisions ...

Project Vault’s coffers are effectively underwriting the risk of going up against a competitor with a decades-long headstart ...

Scientists are using non-thermal plasma to produce fertiliser and long-chain hydrocarbons. Mason Wakley talks to the chemists ...

The European Commission has introduced massive antidumping duties on imports of 1,4-butadiene (BDO), an important intermediate molecule in chemical manufacturing. The provisional duties are 106–114% ...

Amide bonds are common in drugs because they are chemically stable, form readily and are biocompatible. They also help ...