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.

We may be on the cusp of a new era of biochemical discovery, but turning these advancements into drugs isn’t so easy ...

As modern warfare weaponizes the very air we breathe, chemists should leverage their skills and knowledge to detect, neutralize, and reclaim toxic atmospheres in the world’s most devastated conflict z ...

F or a chemistry undergraduate focused on synthesis, pivoting to a PhD in physics is a bold move. But that’s exactly what Sascha Feldmann did—unlocking a research career that fuses materials ...

Nature will begin publishing all peer review comments. Other journals should follow suit ...

“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 ...

Skeletal editing: How close are we to true cut-and-paste chemistry? Reactions that alter organic scaffolds by a single atom are already proving useful, but time will tell if they’ll ...

Periodic Graphics: Chemistry in the sunshine Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning shines a light on some chemical reactions triggered by the sun’s rays ...

Microsoft AI predicts protein conformations The open-source tool goes beyond AlphaFold by finding proteins’ multiple equilibrium states and free energies ...

Team USA brings home gold at 57th International Chemistry Olympiad All 4 team members received a gold medal during a closing ceremony on July 13 ...