Traces of lead pinpoint economic activity, but doubts about contamination have been raised

Ionic liquid and aprotic solvent boost efficiency of electrochemical ammonia production

Researchers are simultaneously shrinking mass specs and broadening their tandem capabilities

Decades in the making, miniature mass spectrometers still face technical hurdles to wider commercial adoption

Mini mass spec can detect lower opioid levels than other methods

San Jose State’s Claire Komives is testing an antivenom inspired by opossum biochemistry against various snake species to prevent deaths in the developing world

Luke Lavis’s lab teaches old dyes new tricks at the HHMI campus

Dynamic boron-oxygen networks are key to the new material’s unusual properties

New obligations for industry as the region and other areas target the causes of marine litter

Nitrogen sublimation and gentle breezes may form the hills

A new report from the Cancer Research Institute highlights the U.S. and China as cell therapy leaders

With so many ingredients on hand, can the oncology community figure out how to sensibly and efficiently combine checkpoint inhibitors with other drugs?

Data sharing project lays groundwork for contaminant “early warning network”

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

Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer Doudna, and Virginijus Siksnys win Kavli Prize in nanoscience, renewing Nobel Prize speculation and resurfacing a forgotten name in the CRISPR patent battle

Goal is getting Pfizer-owned land in New Jersey back into use

Semipermanent color from anthocyanins in fruit skins are a natural alternative to petroleum-derived dyes

Embedding radio frequency chips within stem-cell-derived organoids could aid medical research

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

Sources of pollution differ but models predict more deaths in rural areas because of higher populations there

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

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

International exhibition visits Washington, D.C.

El rover Curiosity proporciona datos sobre las misteriosas plumas de metano del planeta rojo

Curiosity rover also reports data on the red planet’s mysterious methane plumes

Added surface glycine residues cause partial unfolding that adapts enyzyme to low temperatures

Diversity, drug prices, and 'right to try' permeated conversation at the drug industry meeting

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