A researcher who lost an arm when her laboratory experiment exploded in March 2016, has reached a settlement of £5 million ...

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 ...

Every year, horseshoe crabs are harvested for their blue blood, but alternatives are now coming through that could help ...

Crackers use high temperatures and steam to produce alkenes – mostly ethylene and propylene – from larger hydrocarbons in ...

Laccaic acid, thought to be produced by lac insects, is produced by a symbiont similar to the zombie ant fungus ...

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 ...

Gilead and its partners' efforts to distribute generic lenacapavir could be derailed by cuts in international aid budgets ...

A lanthanide–carbon triple bond has been created for the first time, specifically a bond between cerium and carbon, encapsulated within a C 80 fullerene cage. This is a significant development in ...

Another chemist is hiding in this week’s sudoku-style puzzle Solve this wordoku in the same way as a sudoku with letters instead of numbers (each of the nine letters in each row, column and ...