Chemistry

Diacylglycerol, or DAG, is one of those quiet molecules that food scientists have long wanted more of. It occurs naturally...

A single nanomaterial that can strip a stubborn industrial dye from water and, under the same visible light, drive cervical...

Medicinal chemists have long been drawn to nitrogen-rich ring structures, the molecular scaffolds that underpin a remarkable share of the...

Turning carbon dioxide back into useful chemicals is one of the most tantalizing goals in modern electrochemistry, and copper has...

The mangosteen, Garcinia mangostana, has long been celebrated across Southeast Asia as the “queen of fruits,” prized for its sweet,...

The United States has spent years worrying about where its next supply of nickel, titanium, manganese, vanadium and rare earth...

Cellulose is the most abundant natural polymer on Earth, and in an era when societies are urgently searching for alternatives...

A team of computational chemists has designed a family of eight new organic molecules that, according to detailed quantum mechanical...

A package of fish sits in the refrigerator, and the film lining the lid quietly shifts from golden yellow to...

For decades, measuring the antioxidant power of a food, drug, or cosmetic has meant the same thing: mixing a sample...

A new scientific journal dedicated entirely to green chemistry has launched with a bold ambition: to make safer, cleaner, and...

In a finding that sounds more like kitchen alchemy than materials science, researchers in India have transformed the soot from...

Imagine a future in which the very concrete beneath your feet and around your windows does more than hold a...

Organic electronics promise flexible displays, low-cost sensors and printable circuits, but their performance still hinges on a stubbornly difficult problem:...

Antibiotic resistance keeps climbing, and one of medicine’s most valuable weapons against stubborn Gram-positive infections is slowly losing its edge....

Lithium-ion batteries have long been locked into a costly dependency on cobalt, a metal whose supply chains are fraught with...

Scientists in South Korea have found a way to take ordinary oak wood and strip away nearly all of its...

A drop of water landing on a lotus leaf does not spread. It beads up, gleams like mercury, and rolls...

A banned pesticide that was outlawed decades ago is still turning up in the rice, corn, wheat, and beans that...

Magnetism in molecular materials is not written into the molecules alone. It emerges from how those molecules sit next to...