Researchers in the US have developed a photoredox system that allows them to introduce two nucleophiles across a ...

In the suburban Los Angeles city of Garden Grove, California this past May, there was a rather unusual chemical manufacturing ...

The latest shake-up of UK science policy oversight brings uncertainty to a sector that needs stability to succeed ...

Motor proteins power everything from muscle contraction to bacterial swimming. While replicating their chemically fuelled ...

Analysis of 55 research unis also reveals a 21% decline in applications from foreign students to US doctoral programmes for ...

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A surprise cyclisation offers a generalised route to heavily substituted tetrahydrofuran (THF) units. The stereoselective reaction combines simple building blocks to construct the densely ...

The nascent chemical recycling industry – in which plastics are broken down into oils or constituent monomers to be remade into new materials – is contracting across Europe and the US as recyclers ...

One of Andy Burnham’s first acts as new UK prime minister has been to abolish the government’s dedicated science department. Responsibility for the science and innovation portfolio now lies with the ...

The Canadian-born American theoretical chemist Rudy Marcus, who won the chemistry Nobel prize in 1992 for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems, passed ...