Chemistry

Every year, industrial and domestic effluents discharge roughly 0.3 billion tons of micropollutants into the world’s water bodies, a cocktail...

In the global race to produce clean hydrogen without pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, one of the most elegant...

A team of researchers in New Delhi has developed a biodegradable food packaging film made from polyvinyl alcohol and starch,...

Quinoa has spent the past decade basking in the spotlight as one of the most nutritionally complete plants humans can...

Sardine surimi has long been the underdog of the surimi industry. Unlike the white-fleshed fish that dominate commercial surimi production,...

A team of Brazilian researchers has developed a multiplatform chemical fingerprinting approach that combines three distinct analytical techniques to classify...

Periodontitis, one of the most widespread chronic inflammatory diseases in the world, has long frustrated dentists and biomedical researchers alike....

Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction has long been celebrated as one of the most promising routes for turning waste emissions into...

Chemists have unveiled a simpler, faster way to stitch together the molecular building blocks of proteins, and the trick involves...

Microplastics have become one of the most pervasive signs of the industrial age, turning up in the deepest ocean trenches,...

Researchers in Turkey have engineered an electrospun nanofiber wound dressing that closes nearly all of a full-thickness wound within two...

In the race to build a practical hydrogen economy, one stubborn problem has shadowed every optimistic forecast: how to store...

None The bibliometric profile of layered double hydroxide research reveals a field that, while still modest in absolute output, has...

Global agriculture runs on three finite pillars: phosphate rock, natural gas for nitrogen synthesis, and potash deposits. All three are...

Bread scientists in Belgium have uncovered new evidence that the secret to a perfectly airy loaf may lie less in...

In a finding that could reshape how the world builds its next generation of supercapacitors, a team of Nigerian researchers...

Pressure-sensitive adhesives are the quiet workhorses of modern technology. They bond flexible displays to their frames, hold automotive trim in...

A team of researchers in Cameroon, Belgium and South Africa has shown that two humble additives—a natural gum harvested from...

Every year, nearly eight million metric tonnes of plastic enter the world’s oceans, and the packaging industry remains one of...

Chemists in Nigeria have unveiled a new family of metal complexes that appear to do several jobs at once: killing...