Giovanni Traverso, a mechanical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says his team’s goal was to make a ...

A new carbon-to-nitrogen skeletal-editing reaction works on complex molecules, such as vinpocetine. C-to-N cut-and-paste ...

This video shows how researchers reconstruct the text inscribed in fragile ancient scrolls without unfurling them. Credit: Jacob LaManna/National Institute of Standards and Technology and Douglas ...

Researchers at the University of Ulm have described the first autonomous walking small-molecule machine: a simple phosphate group ( Nat. Chem. 2026, DOI: 10.1038/s41557-026-02240-4). The walker ...

Chemical facilities lost the ability to vet personnel against a federal terrorism database when the Chemical Facility ...

The Atlantic Basin Conference on Chemistry will take place Dec. 6–9 in Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, and focus on chemistry for global impact ...

Make your prediction for the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and tell us why your pick deserves a call from Stockholm this ...

Ineos says it will idle three acetyls plants in Hull, England, because of high energy prices. The closures, which will spell the end of industrial-scale acetyls manufacturing in Europe and affect 300 ...

A new understanding of transfer RNA biology means researchers can assign up to 34 codons to amino acids of their choosing ...

Many start-ups are working on harnessing the neuroplastic effects of psychedelics to treat depression and other mental health conditions. Many of those have focused on the 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A (5-HT ...

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A man with a beard and wearing glasses looks through a microscope. Long-term research may be more difficult to plan under the new rule, as grants are subject to termination for any reason. Credit: ...