Chemistry

Shoppers judge a steak with their eyes long before they ever taste it, and that split-second verdict is written in...

Polypropylene is everywhere. It wraps our food, forms our car bumpers, lives in our appliance housings, and quietly performs in...

A liquid fuel that can be poured, stored and shipped at ambient conditions, produced from biomass or even captured carbon...

A team of medicinal chemists in India has reported a new family of synthetic molecules that show striking potency against...

Yogurt is one of the world’s most popular fermented foods, but anyone who has scooped a spoonful of watery whey...

Chemists at Yasouj University in Iran have unveiled a new catalyst that reads like a checklist of green chemistry’s biggest...

Hydrogen has long been heralded as the fuel of the future: it packs enormous energy per kilogram, emits nothing but...

A team of researchers at Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan in Pakistan, working with collaborators at the University of Camerino...

A team of researchers in China and New Zealand has built a photocatalyst from an unlikely combination of ingredients: corn...

A team of researchers in China has developed a pocket-sized fluorescence sensor that can tell whether fish, shrimp, or clams...

Banana peels, one of the world’s most abundant fruit wastes, have long been treated as little more than kitchen scraps....

A study that promised to transform the way concrete handles water and stress has been struck from the scientific record....

Breast cancer remains the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of cancer death among women worldwide. According to...

In a finding that turns the medicine cabinet into a materials-science resource, researchers in Mexico have shown that expired omeprazole,...

A single molecule can behave in radically different ways depending only on how its atoms are arranged in space, and...

Every year, the world produces millions of tonnes of polyurethane foam, the light, airy polymer that insulates our buildings, cushions...

Chemists have long dreamed of snapping together the carbon backbones of molecules the way children snap together building blocks —...

A common chemotherapy drug is quietly slipping through wastewater treatment plants around the world, and a new computational study suggests...

A humble tree that blankets the hills of southern China may be hiding one of the most promising plant-based sources...

Mississippi State University Professor Benjamin Crider has been selected as a 2026 Experimental Physics Investigator by the Gordon and Betty...