Across the US, hundreds protest the mass firings at the National Institutes of Health and other federal science agencies ...

Credit: Form Energy | At a facility in California, a scientist tests the performance of Form Energy’s iron-air batteries.

Skatole is an infamously smelly molecule that, in some anaerobic bacteria, is synthesized from ʟ-tryptophan in a four-step ...

Hair conditioners typically contain dozens of ingredients, which are often sourced from petrochemicals or synthesized oils ...

Two new catalyst systems take aim at these problems. One catalyst splits ethanol to give hydrogen at 270 °C and produces ...

Bacteria get up to all sorts of strange things. As a result, they’ve evolved to produce an extensive range of small molecules ...

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Acrylic polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate)—the plastic used in Plexiglas—are durable materials with a huge variety of commercial applications. But the all-carbon backbones that give these ...

A lack of competitiveness and supportive legislation has combined with soft demand to push firms to sell or close plants ...

The Finnish refiner Neste is one of the world’s largest producers of biobased and recycled-plastic-based raw materials, which are used to make renewable chemicals and polymers. In recent years, many ...

Small, polar rings and electron-withdrawing atoms are both well-loved motifs in medicinal chemistry. So oxetanes and fluorine atoms could be a match made in drug discovery heaven. Researchers devised ...

Over the past week, thousands of employees have been fired across multiple US regulatory and science funding agencies. The ...