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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Microplastic pollution has likely been traveling in the atmosphere for decades. Researchers want better tools to study its effects on climate, ecology, and human health.

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 ...

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 ...