The chemical basis of the lichen’s resistance lies in its UV-opaque cortex, a structural layer enriched with phenolic lichen ...

Sustainable by design solutions in adhesives usually compromise on strength and stickiness. Now, a group of chemists has ...

The Diels–Alder reaction uses reactive dienes and a dienophile, like an alkene, to form six-membered rings and ortho ...

An analysis of US surface water monitoring records has found that less than 1% of chemicals of potential environmental ...

Antarctica may seem pristine and almost devoid of life, but there's plenty of chemistry going on. Victoria Atkinson explains ...

Drug discovery efforts based on DNA-encoded chemical libraries are inadvertently overlooking numerous potential drug ...

Having recently read S J Parris’s novel Alchemy, set in 16th century Prague, and finding myself in the Czech capital on a ...

A lanthanide–carbon triple bond has been created for the first time, specifically a bond between cerium and carbon, ...

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to fund seven year project headed by sustainable chemistry pioneer Paul Anastas ...

Incorporating small amounts of oxidants into methane pyrolysis can significantly enhance carbon and hydrogen production and ...

Chemistry came alive in a reimagined form at the 75th Yusuf Hamied Chemistry Camp for Visually Challenged Students, hosted at ...

A team of researchers is beginning work on creating new tools that could eventually lead to the synthesis of the human genome ...