And then there’s the color red, which, for structural reasons, is generally difficult to achieve in chemistry. For practical ...

A research team at King's College London has isolated a new form of aluminum—a highly abundant metal, that could provide a ...

Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben's discovery of the radioactive isotope carbon-14 in 1940 helped usher in a new era of dating ...

In other developments, the EPA adds another PFAS to its Toxics Release Inventory program and the Interior Department proposes seabed mining rules ...

The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now chemist Mas Subramanian is unpicking the atomic code of colour and homing in on our most-wanted hue ...

Compared to previous theories, the current research emphasizes the complexity of the biological and chemical processes that brought about life.

The Schrödinger equation rewrote the rules of matter and forever changed the field of chemistry. Donald Truhlar, a chemist at the University of Minnesota, calls it the “greatest advance of the 20th ...

This article takes a deep dive into the history of proteomics from the conception of the term “proteome” up to modern-day advances in bioinformatics and single-cell protein analysis.

BackgroundThe emergence of the first biopolymers and their building blocks on the early Earth is considered a key moment in the origin of life (OoL ...

Access to rare earths is absolutely crucial for defense and high-tech industries, and securing sufficient supply could either make or break U.S. national security.

Why it matters: While not evidence of life, these discoveries show that ancient Mars had complex organic chemistry, ...

The struggle for geopolitical supremacy is rapidly becoming a struggle over one critical resource - rare earth magnets. They will determine ...