Analytical chemists have been using machine learning long before ChatGPT made headlines. Now, as generative AI enters the ...

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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 ...

Chemical analysis of limpet shells reveals how these organisms migrate across thousands of miles between deep sea hydrothermal vents. The results help to explain how community make-up in these extreme ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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