A lawsuit in South Africa accuses petrochemicals giant Sasol of abusing its ethylene supply monopoly. The lawsuit has been ...

Metsera, the US biotech with a pipeline of next-generation metabolic hormone weight loss drugs, has agreed a sale to Pfizer ...

UK public support for R&D is ‘broad but shallow’, according to a new report by the Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE). The science advocacy group warns that public backing for science ...

James Watson, who shared the Nobel prize for his work on DNA’s molecular structure, has died at the age of 97.

With N2O emissions up 40% in four decades, scientists are searching for answers. Anthony King looks at potential solutions to ...

Animal tests show promise to target invasive strain of E. coli but approval for use in humans is still years away ...

Two new catalytic strategies offer ways to boost the Fischer–Tropsch process by preventing competing side reactions. The ...

Pilot-scale production achieved a fibre fineness similar to wool and a little coarser than cotton. The researchers also ...

A survey of chemists’ attitudes to correcting errors in scientific publications shows most prefer to discuss them informally ...

‘The UK has experienced sluggish productivity growth and near-flat real wages since the global financial crisis,’ says Robert ...

Thiophenes are widely used motifs in drugs and many organic semiconductor materials, the latter due to thiophene’s conjugated ...

Readers discuss sustainable fuels, the magic of the placebo effect and the deaths of DFT and expensive calculators ...