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Nominations sought for 2025 Linus Pauling Medal

The award recognizes outstanding achievements in chemistry

Impacts of NSF firings come into focus as scientists we...

Remaining National Science Foundation employees are strategizing ways to uphold ...

Scientists protest NIH cuts that senator says ‘will kil...

Across the US, hundreds protest the mass firings at the National Institutes of H...

The search for long-duration energy storage

Companies face hurdles as they develop batteries that can store enough power for...

Something smells off about this enzyme

A newly discovered enzyme swiftly makes a stink

A lignin-based conditioner may restore strands of hair

A simple gel smoothed damaged hair and reduced the force needed for combing

New federal report outlines strategic goals to advance ...

The US strategic plan for sustainable chemistry, released in December 2024, sets...

New catalysts offer dual hope for green hydrogen

Two new alcohol reforming routes promise a way to produce carbon-neutral hydroge...

Imagine the pasta-bilities

Cheese-sauce secrets and the science of salt rings

Editorial: Headlines from a tumultuous month for US che...

The past 4 weeks of dizzying changes have shaken up science since the new admini...

Editorial: Headlines from a tumultuous month for US che...

The past 4 weeks of dizzying changes have shaken up science since the new admini...

Breaking down Plexiglas with light

Chlorine radicals unmake commercial polymethacrylates under mild conditions

Europe’s chemical industry eyes a wave of plant closures

A lack of competitiveness and supportive legislation has combined with soft dema...

Neste pulls back from renewable chemicals

Raw material supplier to put emphasis on renewable fuels instead

A new path to elusive fluorinated oxetanes

Copper catalyst surgically inserts difluorinated carbene into small heterocycles

Can methanol decarbonize fuels?

Low-carbon methanol shows promise as a fuel, but it is unproved at the massive s...

Thousands of federal employees fired from US regulatory...

Impacts expected to be wide reaching

Periodic Graphics: Food gelling agents explained

Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning cooks up an explor...

Editorial: There’s a lot going on in US science. Help u...

C&EN wants to hear from you about the ripple effects of the new US administratio...

Long COVID studies stymied by pharma’s lack of cooperation

Academic researchers want to repurpose drugs for the condition. Manufacturers ar...

Editorial: Now we must mobilize for science, again...

When the state fails to promote scientifically informed public health practices...

Designer enzymes take a big step forward

AI-designed enzymes have been a tall order

Machine learning–enhanced spectroscopy detects toxins

Combining machine learning with surface-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy m...

Obituary: Attila E. Pavlath

Chemist shared the importance of chemistry with the public and worked to ensure ...

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