Graduate school is typically a time for extreme focus on research, but in the chemistry program at the University of California, Berkeley, first-year graduate students are required to take a step back ...

When I spoke about my vision for the American Chemical Society at the 2024 council meeting in New Orleans, asking for their support, I said: “I also have much in common with you and everyone. . . We ...

This is Part 2 of a series of posts on Interpersonal Chemistry. Part 1 explored the mechanisms of chemistry. Humans feel attracted to each other for all sorts of reasons. Is it possible, in any given ...

This is Part 2 of a series of posts on Interpersonal Chemistry. Part 1 explored the mechanisms of chemistry. Humans feel attracted to each other for all sorts of reasons. Is it possible, in any given ...

Science provides an important way to understand the world that can inform policy and personal decisions, improve human and ecological health and well-being, and advance knowledge and innovation.

When people trust science, they can make better decisions, follow helpful rules and work together on big problems like health, climate change and new technology. But if people stop trusting science, ...

Scholars at Harvard tell their stories in the Experience series. When George Whitesides started as a teenage technician in his father’s Kentucky lab in the early 1950s, the bond was immediate — and ...

Space is the place . . . for Chemistry! ACS president-elect Chris Bodurow and three colleagues chat about the role of chemistry in space exploration and how they ended up working in such an exciting ...

If you like to solve complex puzzles, and regularly find creative solutions to unusual challenges, this may be the career for you. Formulation chemistry is the branch of manufacturing that deals with ...

The coronavirus outbreak has underscored the prominent role that science news and information can play in public life, and there are signs that Americans are now paying more attention to science news.