It looks like a classic capsule for medication but is sealed with a specially designed sugar polymer that is responsive to ...

As modern warfare weaponizes the very air we breathe, chemists should leverage their skills and knowledge to detect, ...

A new review of recent studies shows the great apes rely on medicinal plants to heal infections, but the plants’ chemistry ...

During cognitive decline, lithium is sequestered into amyloid plaques; treatment with the metal reverses symptoms ...

Companies that broker and facilitate scientific fraud are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, according to a new study.

“Lead to gold is one of those things that the experiment was not designed for,” Takaki tells Newscripts. The LHC was designed to smash lead ions into each other, but the ALICE researchers found that ...

Most of the world’s polysilicon is made in China, and the US solar industry is encouraging suppliers to increase production elsewhere. Solar companies argue that a less-concentrated supply chain ...

Why glass recycling in the US is broken Americans turn old bottles into new ones at much lower rates than people in other countries. A recent analysis explains why ...

A nything synthetic chemicals can do, biological systems can do better. That mantra is at the heart of Ariel Furst ’s research. By combining the power of biology with chemistry and materials ...

Plastic has a problem; is chemical recycling the solution? Under public pressure, plastics makers are increasingly looking to partner with companies to develop chemical recycling processes ...

It’s time to get serious about recycling lithium-ion batteries A projected surge in electric-vehicle sales means that researchers must think about conserving natural resources and addressing ...

C ommercials for drugs all share one noticeable feature: a long list of side effects that the voice-over must read. The list sometimes can be longer than the rest of the ad, observes Denise Okafor ...