The closure of university chemistry departments and courses in the UK is leading to the emergence of ‘cold spots’, areas ...

The causes of higher education’s financial problems are multi-faceted but what matters is that chemistry departments – as one ...

Model for predicting molecular crystal properties is readily adaptable to specific tasks, even with limited data ...

Black eye makeup, or kohl, used between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE in the north-west of Iran contained natural graphite ...

While each of these industries faces its own challenges, they are united by the themes outlined in Anthony King’s exploration ...

A new derivative of ferrocene has 20 valence electrons, challenging the longstanding rule that organometallic compounds can ...

Document's postponement follows recent suspension of staff at Environmental Protection Agency for releasing similar ...

The administration’s proposed cuts for research and development are unprecedented – its funding levels would bring basic and applied research back to levels not seen since the late 1990s, when taking ...

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (Iupac) has launched a set of guiding principles of responsible chemistry with the aim of transforming how chemistry is practised, taught and ...

Tetra-substituted alkenes – carbon–carbon double bonds surrounded by four different chemical groups – are a surprisingly ...

A researcher who lost an arm when her laboratory experiment exploded in March 2016, has reached a settlement of £5 million with the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, more than eight years after filing ...

A series of compounds featuring fused six-membered silicon rings represents a step up in complexity for the class of structures known as ‘ladder molecules’. The team that created them states that the ...