Questions remain about the safety and effectiveness of alternative solvents

After attracting BASF, catalysis expert seeks other partners for a new batch of projects

After years of heady expansion, sector is feeling growing pains

Closed-loop flow process uses concentrated catalysts and recycles cofactors to improve conversion

Award resurfaces a forgotten name in the CRISPR patent battle amid Nobel Prize speculation

Combination of microfluidics and a nanosensor achieves label-free detection of cytokines from individual cells

Combining vibrational circular dichroism and infrared spectroscopy yields real-time probe of asymmetric catalytic reactions

New investor takes on a company trying to combine a range of pharmaceutical services

Surprised by proposal, scientific experts to ask agency chief to wait for their feedback before finalizing rule

Solution containing lithium salt-solvent clusters makes lithium-metal batteries safer and long lasting

As the military looks to phase out toxic TNT, chemists have created a new nitrogen-packed molecule with promising properties

Soft robotic structures walk forward, pick up objects, and even dance in response to electric fields

Though initially daunting, stricter fuel economy and emission standards result in automotive innovations

Rapid improvements in the stability and efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem cells are raising commercial hopes

Pairs of surfaces taking like charges confound researchers

Crop feeds on phosphite, potentially allowing it to outwit weeds and mitigate pollution from traditional fertilizer runoff

Ocean Plastics Charter seeks to rein in mounting problem of waste

A superhydrophilic film made of two sugar molecules could help prevent bacterial growth on the mouthpieces

It’s never too late to start getting connected online

Biochemists were two of three who shared 1997 prize for work related to adenosine triphosphate

The startup is developing allosteric activators to increase levels of the vital metabolic molecule coenzyme A in pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration

Cultural change needed to prevent injury to female faculty, students

Es necesario un cambio cultural para evitar seguir perjudicando a las investigadoras

Study in rats and fruit flies suggests that these drugs could inspire better, ketamine-like antidepressants

Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning wrings all the molecular details out of the popular goo

New process to make polypropylene from waste oil is part of Ikea’s long-term plan to replace fossil inputs

New surface chemistry method answers mechanistic questions that have eluded chemists for 40 years

Spinning hydrogen-coated clusters of carbon atoms may be source of anomalous microwave emission spotted around our galaxy

Transparent film of nanocellulose in a glass matrix confers hardness and fracture toughness to plastic

Stock market conditions are favorable for Chinese technology firms