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Supramolecular gels improve performance of aircraft deicing fluids
Made using low-cost reagents, the gels could be more sustainable than current anti-icing products
US influence on international research partnerships in decline
Analysis of co-authorship data identifies trends in scientific collaboration
Prominent environmental health journal disappears, but it’s in transition
Environmental Health Perspectives, published by NIH for over 50 years, is suddenly gone but will soon move to a new, non-governmental publisher
Stiffest organic crystals reported to date discovered in well-known material
Mucic acid crystals owe their rigidity to a dense network of intermolecular hydrogen bonds
Crucibles: from alchemy to chemistry
An excerpt from Philip Ball’s book Alchemy traces chemistry back to its beginnings
Cryptic elements jumbo CrOsSWORd 2025
Solve this particularly puzzling crossword and you’ll feel like a ’King who’s rich within (5)’
Jumbo quick crossword 2025
An extra large edition of our quick chemistry crossword
Chemistry wordoku #125
See 2025 out with an alkaloid hidden in a sudoku-style puzzle
Langmuir’s pump and the optimism of science
Creativity nurtured by an explorative environment
Tree-D printing for Christmas
Watch how this Christmas ornament was 3D printed using supercooled water
Structure as a strategy
Progress in materials chemistry has often come from changing what things are made of, yet today we understand that how those components are arranged is just as important
Thianthrenium reagent captures elusive protein interactions in living cells
Reagent creates short, stable protein crosslinks, enabling researchers to identify previously unknown protein–protein interactions
Reprieve for Grangemouth ethylene
UK government agrees £150 million deal to support the country’s last ethylene production plant
Erasmus+ programme to reopen to UK student in 2027
UK will contribute £570 million in the first year as students can take part in the scheme for the first time since Brexit
Shedding light on how photoactive crystals respond in real time
Lauren Hatcher discusses her work developing techniques for time-resolved crystallography
Pharmaceuticals roundup 2025
Policy swings have made it a slippery year for pharma
Chemicals industry roundup 2025
Europe hit hard by China’s independence push, but India is growing
AI continues to make waves and structural editing impresses in 2025
The research that has amazed and amused us this year