To make biodegradable water-based coatings, chemists turn to a handful of polymer types, including polylactic acid, ...

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

“Most of the flavor profile of the meat is due to the fat and the marbling,” Boyle says. That’s why she—and many others ...

“We’ve been calling it mycotecture,” Rothschild tells Newscripts, a portmanteau of “mycology,” the study of fungi, and ...

Since late 2021, Okorie has championed early-career chemists in the American Chemical Society’s North Jersey Section as ...

The New York City–based hedge fund Mantle Ridge has accumulated a $1 billion stake in the industrial gas firm Air Products and Chemicals and aims to influence changes at the company, according to a ...

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun receive prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene ...

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.

“The heroes here tonight are not make-believe heroes from Marvel Comics, but real-life heroes who have made an impact on ...

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.

A deadly, Ebola-like virus called Marburg is currently causing an outbreak in Rwanda. The country declared an outbreak of ...

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 ...