Team leader He Jiankui sentenced to three years with another two researchers sent to prison
Read storyGiant, 162 π-electron aromatic ring shows that we haven’t reached the upper limit of Hückel’s rule yet
Nanoscience pioneer Charles Lieber faces up to five years in jail for failing to disclose millions in funding from China to US funding agencies
Robust data help close in on prized room temperature superconductor
University of Sheffield scientists provide the spark to get displaced victims of Syria’s civil war growing their own
Read storyRobot that monitors crystallization could lead to new ways to study stochastic processes in chemistry
Analysis of national chemical inventories finds three times as many chemicals registered for production as previously thought
Structure determined at ‘remarkable’ speed in little over a month
Labs and lectures wound up as students and staff are left anxious about their futures
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System to streamline small molecule production could bring state-of-the-art chemistry to many more teams
‘War effort’ seeks to provide hand sanitiser, protective equipment, ventilators and tests
Material in meteorites is likely to have formed under intense conditions
Read storySuppliers are stepping up production to meet demand as UK targets mass testing
Raw NMR data takes 60 seconds, rather than eight hours, to go from spectrometer to structure
Research that might have taken years is being turned around in months as journals fast-track Covid-19 manuscripts
Legacy issues are posing important questions for scientific software developers
Read storyResearchers asked to volunteer as ‘rapid reviewers’ for coronavirus manuscripts, and over 1000 have already answered the call
High-throughput method that uses mere micrograms of small molecule samples could ease frustration for crystallographers
The clean fuel can combust with potentially devastating beauty in narrow gaps when mixed with air
Moore’s law could hold true for many years to come with a little help from nanotubes
Read storyEnzyme beats most synthetic catalysts when it comes to enantioselective intermolecular [4+2] cycloadditions
Artificial pumps can add up to 10 molecular rings onto polymer dumbbells in a controlled manner
Predicted by an evolutionary algorithm, the first hexagonal sodium chloride was made on a diamond surface
Robotic chemist optimises water-splitting photocatalyst by working continuously for eight days even in complete darkness
Read storySynthetic mimic of complex at the heart of photosynthesis offers new ways to capture solar energy
Chemical system combines two of life’s three essential features making it one of the most lifelike yet
Proposed reduction attacked as ‘retrograde step’
Ammonium nitrate explosion that killed at least 135 appears to have been caused by poorly-stored cargo from an abandoned vessel
Read storyOverhaul will improve accuracy and push back how far samples can be dated by 5000 years
Early experiments are revealing that vacuum-field catalysis could make reactions happen with mirrors and nothingness
Black students are only one quarter as likely to study for a PhD than their white counterparts
German chancellor Angela Merkel says Russia has ‘serious questions’ to answer after tests confirm presence of nerve agent in Alexei Navalny’s bloodstream
Read storySuspected data manipulation or fabrication casts shadows over safety trial report for hastily-approved Sputnik V
Single-walled carbon nanotubes and transmission electron microscope used to watch tiny metal crystals form in real time
Open letter from leading scientists warns of declining innovation and a brain drain
2020 chemistry award goes to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier
Read storyA test bed solar energy system using graphene–perovskite panels has delivered ‘very promising’ early results
At high pressures carbon–hydrogen–sulfur compound becomes superconducting at 15˚C
Ice could be a resource for future lunar missions
US president-elect Joe Biden expected to reverse many of Trump’s actions on climate, environment and funding that worried scientists and research advocates
Read storySoftware updates allow Chematica to design sophisticated synthetic pathways, planning each step four or five moves ahead
Universal sequence of elements index uses atomic radii and electronegativity to make predictions about simple compounds
Cheap and fridge-stable candidate at least 60% and up to 90% effective at preventing disease
Andy Extance discovers how scientists around the world have responded to the pandemic, working on solutions from drugs and vaccines to hand sanitiser and PPE
Read storyRegulators conclude US start-up has proven that its cultured chicken is safe and nutritious
Regulators around the world working towards accelerated decisions on vaccine data
Porous planar electron transport layer boosts power conversion efficiency in flexible perovskite solar cells to 20.7%