A nighttime cityscape showing a bright white-light beam shining between buildings over a distance of about 1.2 km.

The company is using its expertise as a papermaker to source wood sustainably and convert it into chemicals. The Iran war has narrowed the price gap between biobased and fossil fuel chemicals. A ...

Mining the heavy rare earths needed for clean technologies caused devastation in Asia. Miners in Brazil say they can extract ...

ACS member John Warner, who appears in new documentary ‘The Plastic Detox,’ tells us about the challenges of reducing plastic ...

David and Gina traverse time to find that retinol, known for its antiaging properties, is much more than a skin-care fad ...

At the start of the new year, nuclear chemists Hiromitsu Haba and Kouji Morimoto slide precisely 119 Japanese yen into the collection box at their local shrine. They are seeking good fortune in their ...

Energy security is a big reason for new investments, though they were likely on the drawing board before the Iran war ...

A man with short dark hair in a blue suit looks straight ahead as he sits in a room that is out of focus behind him. US Environmental Protection Agency deputy administrator David Fotouhi testifies at ...

“What this paper illustrates is the incredible power of biocatalysis to manufacture incredibly complex macrocyclic peptides,” says David A. Thaisrivongs, who leads the biocatalysis team in Merck & Co.

Officials in Europe are undertaking new efforts on a number of fronts to protect industry, including chemical manufacturing, from low-cost imports that have dodged trade rules. Spain, France, Italy, ...

The future of next-generation robots that move like living systems will be shaped by advances in molecular design ...

Hurricane Harvey, which made landfall in southeast Texas in 2017, dropped about 154 cm of rain over four days, making it the wettest tropical cyclone ever to hit the US. The storm’s rainfall caused ...