News of colleges ending their chemistry majors have chemists and administrators worried. But while the problem is real, ...

They say complexities of human sex require more inclusive definitions, and research data need to reflect biological ...

Turning plastic into solid carbon is not easy. Heat the polymers to rearrange their carbon atoms, and they decompose into ...

Lee Penn and Argo Farlin argues that the American Chemical Society and wider chemistry community should do more to fully include transgender and nonbinary constituents. As C&EN’s inbox often reflects, ...

Next month’s US presidential election is sure to affect scientists—but exactly how a win for Donald J. Trump or Kamala Harris would ripple through the chemical enterprise remains unclear.

When Alnylam Pharmaceuticals founding CEO John Maraganore left the company in late 2021, he joked that he wanted to be a “grandfather” of biotech—not leading any companies, per se, but ...

The Danish investment giant A.P. Moller Holding has created a business named Vioneo to make polypropylene and polyethylene in Antwerp, Belgium, from green methanol rather than oil or natural gas.

Antimalarials discovered over the last century have proved effective in fighting malaria. But the parasites that cause the disease often develop resistance to these drugs, leaving a demand for new ...

Chemists at Hokkaido University have experimentally confirmed the existence of a single-electron carbon-carbon bond for the first time (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1). Linus Pauling ...

Techniques like CRISPR promise improvements for crops, but policy and perception hurdles mean they may never take root in the ...

It is the comprehensive analysis of the components of a food using omics technologies. Foodomics has really been made ...

Sebacic acid, although less familiar to the average consumer, is perhaps the highest-volume chemical on the list. Pazos says ...