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Elusive ‘dark matter’ diazo compounds captured from a human lung pathogen
Discovery might lead to simpler, safer ways to make diazo-based reagents
Driving the future of compliance: digital reference materials transforming regulated analytical testing
Join us 21 April to explore how digital tools and frameworks are transforming regulated analytical testing, compliance and industry-wide adoption
Frustrated Lewis pairs mark 20 years of metal-free catalysis
James Mitchell Crow explains how an unexpected discovery in main group chemistry inspired two decades of chemical creativity, from carbon dioxide reduction to fluorocarbon recycling, offering sustainable alternatives to precious metal catalysis
US moves to roll back ethylene oxide exposure rules
Environmental Protection Agency will relax limits on emissions from commercial sterilisers
Cryptic chemistry crossword #125
Completing this cryptic chemistry crossword has sent ’our ape over the moon (6)’
Chemistry wordoku #134
Complete this sudoku-inspired puzzle to find the superheavy chemist
Discovery of unique modification to plant’s carbon dioxide-fixing enzyme could boost crops
Linker that joins up Rubisco cuts synthesis of toxic byproduct that plants pay a heavy energy price to deal with
Electrostatic decatalysis offers a new way to suppress parasitic side reactions
Study demonstrates how charge engineering can deactivate competing reaction pathways to boost ammonia electrosynthesis
As UK cuts airborne lab worries persist about future of funding following changes
Poor communication is being blamed by government ministers for concerns as research councils pause grants to revamp system
Molecules with largest dipole moments aren’t due to electronegativity differences
Computational analysis challenges Pauling’s idea of polarity
Explainer: what is thermal paper?
Many thermal papers use toxic bisphenols, which react with dyes under heat to print text for receipts, labels and tickets
Sharpening chemical intuition
Chemists are moving beyond hand-waving explanations by quantifying factors like the anomeric effect and steric repulsion
Near-Earth asteroid samples contain all five nucleobases key to life
Meteorites rich in chemicals used to build nucleic acids may have helped kick-start life on early Earth
Self-healing polymers emerge from the first use of pnictogen bond crosslinks
Antimony–nitrogen interactions yield materials with enhanced stability and the ability to self-heal in aqueous environments
New studies highlight emerging potential of aluminium(I) chemistry
Aluminium redox catalysis and reactive aluminium clusters showcase main-group element’s transition-metal-like reactivity
California finds no significant risk to human health from synthetic turf fields
After years of conflicting safety findings, the head of the state’s environmental hazard assessment office says this new study should ‘ease concerns’
Visualising data for scientific discovery
Turn complex data into clear insight through hands-on learning and expert guidance
Fritz Strassmann: the principled chemist who discovered nuclear fission
Analytical chemist Friedrich Strassmann played a crucial role in discovering nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, but his principled opposition to Nazi ideology nearly destroyed his career. His story of scientific rigour and moral courage deserves greater recognition
Physicist's piezoelectric pirouettes claims top spot at this year’s Dance your PhD competition
Contemporary dance explains why some materials generate electricity under stress