Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now ...

Veolia CEO Estelle Brachlianoff, who came to the opening from the firm’s headquarters in France, said the plant is the ...

Chen also says that air pollution harms blood vessels, including the tiny ones in the kidneys, which can reduce blood flow ...

Every summer since 2011, the brown seaweed Sargassum has blanketed beaches along the Atlantic and Caribbean coasts, hurting local ecosystems and economies. Warmer temperatures have led to ...

As US federal funding cuts and layoffs drive some researchers out of the nation, institutions in other countries are pivoting to position themselves as a refuge for top scientific talent.

The world’s petrochemical industry is in a perilous state. It is facing its worst business downturn in a generation because producers overbuilt capacity just as the global economy stalled during ...

Describing the benefits of combining laboratory-based techniques and Indigenous knowledges, Stephanie Beaupark harks back to her experience as a weaver. Much like how she once wove Lomandra grass ...

Japan’s leading chemical producers are in the midst of a restructuring intended to shift their focus from traditional petrochemicals and pharmaceuticals to specialty chemicals. This strategic ...

The relationship between intellectual property (IP) and access to the fruits of science has always been tumultuous. The unequal distribution of messenger RNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The world is awash with news about artificial intelligence tools, including those intended to help chemists. But are the tools useful, a threat, or even worth the attention? It’s hard to know ...

When Mike Ferguson, an organic chemistry professor at the University of Central Oklahoma and member of the American Chemical Society, got a call last April to see if he wanted to be on Jeopardy!

Formulation is an intricate practice, straddling science and engineering. In the fast-moving market of personal care—and its ...