Industry giants join alliance that is working to develop a digital record that will track a product's entire lifecycle and environmental impact ...

As well as protecting lichen, this compound could have medical and cosmetic applications - if toxicity concerns can be overcome ...

As a result of the world’s ever-rising carbon emissions, the Earth is increasingly likely to require direct carbon dioxide capture from air to stabilise the climate. MOFs are promising candidates to ...

New legislation provides a legal framework for assessment and cleanup of 189 named chemicals ...

A stabilising sheath of interlocking polymers enables coacervate microdroplets to more closely mimic natural cells than ever before. The researchers behind the work showed how the protected ...

Analytical chemistry can tell us what our ancestors ate thousands - or even millions - of years ago. Rachel Brazil gets her teeth into the evidence ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has launched a new one-year funding initiative to provide $2.5 million (£1.85 million) to support 100 master’s and doctoral chemistry students whose work has been ...

Why are companies working so hard to make oral tablet forms of diabetes and weight loss drugs that target the glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) receptor? The current injectable peptides – Novo Nordisk’s ...

Semaglutide and similar peptide drugs bind the G-protein coupled GLP-1 receptor to transfer chemical signals from outside the cell to its interior. While some of the oral drugs in development bind to ...

Dominik Munz, professor of coordination chemistry at Saarland University, Germany, is a full-fledged chemist v2.0 and a prominent figure in the field of organometallic chemistry. After training as a ...

Following the recent release of journal impact factors, we round up the leading journals across 10 chemistry fields ...

A recent executive order from US president Donald Trump will require political appointees to review federal research grant awards and funding opportunities to ensure that they align with the ...