Chemistry

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...

Northwestern University scientists have engineered a class of molecular structures so vast and precisely controlled that they represent a fundamental...

A humble, cheap molecule found in every pharmacy cabinet may hold one of the keys to greener, safer energy storage....

Every high-performance composite, from a wind turbine blade to an aircraft fuselage, is only as strong as the invisible boundary...

For nearly half a century, chemists have marveled at azobenzene, a molecule that can be flipped between two distinct shapes...

A team of researchers from Shandong First Medical University and collaborating institutions in China has unveiled a dual-function nanomaterial that...

Deep inside a mineral that has been soaking in its own radiation for nearly 1.8 billion years, one of the...

Nitrogen-modified atmosphere storage has become one of the most widely adopted green preservation technologies in the grain industry, flooding sealed...

Deep blue is the color that modern displays struggle hardest to produce. The international Rec. 2020 standard that governs next-generation...

Fuel cells promise clean electricity from hydrogen, but at their heart sits a deceptively simple component that has frustrated materials...

Every year, millions of tonnes of flowers are discarded after festivals, weddings, and religious ceremonies, and much of this fragrant...

An instrument built half a world away from any meteorological laboratory, designed to catch particles arriving from deep space, has...

In a laboratory in Osun State, Nigeria, a team of chemists has turned one of the world’s oldest spices into...

Every year, the palm oil industry discards tens of millions of tons of empty fruit bunches, the fibrous residue left...

Freshwater scarcity has pushed membrane technology to the center of modern water treatment, and one of the field’s stubbornest problems...

A team of researchers spanning institutions in Nigeria, the United States, South Africa, and India argues that flavonoids, the polyphenolic...

Xihu Longjing, the legendary green tea harvested around Hangzhou’s West Lake, can command prices that rival fine wine, and that...