The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has moved to relax air pollution limits on ethylene oxide (EtO), a highly ...

Poor communication is being blamed by government ministers for concerns as research councils pause grants to revamp system ...

Aluminium redox catalysis and reactive aluminium clusters showcase main-group element's transition-metal-like reactivity ...

Antimony-nitrogen interactions yield materials with enhanced stability and the ability to self-heal in aqueous environments ...

Chemists are moving beyond hand-waving explanations by quantifying factors like the anomeric effect and steric repulsion ...

Many thermal papers use toxic bisphenols, which react with dyes under heat to print text for receipts, labels and tickets ...

Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have been found to contain all five nucleobases, adding to evidence that ...

Linker that joins up Rubisco cuts synthesis of toxic byproduct that plants pay a heavy energy price to deal with ...

Cone snails deploy sophisticated venom cocktails to paralyse prey. Anthony King talks to the researchers harnessing these ...

Physicist Sofia Papa has won this year’s Dance your PhD competition with a contemporary-style routine that re-creates the ...

Deyond hydrocarbons, helium and sulfur - byproducts of petroleum extraction - have also been critically affected by Iran's ...

Analytical chemist Friedrich Strassmann played a crucial role in discovering nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, but his principled opposition to Nazi ideology nearly destroyed his career ...