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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...