Experiments on battery electrodes and fuel cell catalysts while they're being used - operando spectroscopy - can revolutionise our understanding of these crucial materials. Clare Sansom reports ...

President of world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society warns that next month could be most important in history of ...

Direct chemical synthesis has been adapted to make oligonucleotides of remarkable length, including an 800 nucleotide green ...

The publishing giant Wiley is urging publishers to be proactive in creating policies and guidelines around the use of ...

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) has called on the UK government to consider the future of science education and invest ...

Researchers create polyesteramides from brassylic acid and explore their potential as a replacement for polyethylene ...

The Zika virus modifies the chemical composition of human skin, making individuals more attractive to mosquitoes. These ...

About 10% of the most influential researchers worldwide in various scientific fields, including chemistry, are achieving ...

Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame ...

For the first time in decades, a new class of painkiller has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Alarm bells were sounded by America’s research community when, four days into Donald Trump’s second term as president, he ...

The University of East Anglia (UEA) has proposed cutting over 160 full-time staff, including 22 from the faculty of science, ...