With on-and-off negotiations continuing between the US and Iran over freight passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the impact of petroleum and Read More
On 28 April, a US federal court sentenced Purdue Pharma to pay over $5 billion (£3.7 billion) in criminal penalties for its aggressive and misleading Read More
An age-old yoghurt recipe has united microbiologists, ecologists, anthropologists, food scientists and chefs in a project to uncover why ants make surprisingly Read More
Pfizer and Novo Nordisk have locked horns in a bidding war over Metsera – a US-based biotech in the process of developing new Read More
Polymer chemist and engineer Irene Yurovska is vigorously sounding an alarm. She warns that supply chain issues surrounding the chemical additives used Read More
What determines how reaction rates respond to thermodynamic driving forces? And why do some reactions speed up dramatically with slight changes in Read More
Water confined in nanoscale channels has dramatically different electrical properties from bulk water, researchers at the University of Manchester have demonstrated. The Read More
Polyurethanes are all around us – in the foam we sit and sleep on, in the insulation that keeps our houses warm and Read More
A new state-of-the-art national laboratories facility has been officially opened in Guildford, UK, following a £20 million investment by global life sciences specialist Read More
Aromatic and antiaromatic structures are the chalk and cheese of cyclic chemistry. Aromatics, such as benzene, are stable and serene; antiaromatics, like Read More