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Chemistry World is the flagship magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Since 2004, Chemistry World has served a global community of chemical scientists with high quality science journalism covering the latest research, new and views from international sources and respected contributors.
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Chemistry delivers £60.5 billion to the UK economy and makes local economies more resilient, says RSC report
Report reveals how chemical sciences contribute to key sectors and industries, and warns that university closures, rising energy costs and geopolitical instability threaten future growth
Remediating PFAS pollution in Europe could cost €100 billion a year
Analysis highlights the enormous financial burden of remediating long- and short-chain PFAS contamination
How a chance discovery overturned one of photochemistry’s oldest dogmas
The first hints of what’s behind the seemingly illogical mismatch between photochemical reactivity and absorptivity could finally end a team’s 10-year struggle to get their results taken seriously
Chemistry wordoku #149
Find the American chemist who devoted much of her energy to improving chemical education in Mississippi in this sudoku-inspired puzzle
Cryptic chemistry crossword #140
Seek the ’Neat collection of animals (6)’ in this cryptic chemistry crossword
Should the EU stop exports of pesticides it has banned?
Agrochemicals including paraquat remain legal elsewhere, prompting questions over regulatory responsibility
The art of not letting the lab burn down
Behind every experiment is a technician quietly preventing catastrophe
Protein wrappers designed by AI solve membrane proteins’ solubility problem
Protein sheaths encapsulate membrane proteins while preserving their structure and function making them easier to study
UK government’s new charter aims to better support women in research
‘Now is the time for research institutions to step up and level the playing field for women,’ notes one government official
Could AI undermine our (belief in the truth of) scientific theories?
Artificial intelligence models that make predictions based solely on data present problems for philosophers
US Supreme Court ruling supports Bayer’s defence in Roundup lawsuits
Decision affects thousands of pending lawsuits related to glyphosate herbicides
Trump administration stands by controversial OMB proposal despite growing resistance
White House denies requests to extend public comment deadline on its plan to give political appointees control over science funding
Rewriting genetic medicine
Scribe Therapeutics will soon begin clinical trials for its epigenetic treatment to tackle ‘bad’ cholesterol
Letters: July 2026
Readers discuss stamp collection, half drops and more
Watching unpaired electrons at work
From building the Centre for Pulse EPR at Imperial to probing electron transfer in real time, Maxie Rößler is pushing an overlooked technique into the spotlight
July 2026 puzzles
Download the puzzles from the July 2026 print issue of Chemistry World
Jonathan Clayden: ‘I like to feel that we have set the curriculum rather than followed the curriculum’
The co-author of the much-loved Organic Chemistry shares his insights on creating a chemistry textbook
Rewriting the textbooks – authors tell us how they do it
Peter Atkins, Catherine Housecroft and Jonathan Clayden guide us through the changing world of textbooks
Catherine Housecroft: ‘Undergraduates do not want to buy big, heavy textbooks’
The author of the authoritative Inorganic Chemistry discusses how changing student attitudes have led the shift to digital resources