Andres Jaramillo

Periodic table of food initiative to uncover exactly what’s in our food

2024-05-10T08:30:00+01:00

Project will create database of food compounds to standardise understanding of biomolecular composition of foods

Tear gas

Explainer: what is tear gas?

2024-05-09T14:33:00+01:00

Accusations of the use of tear gas as a weapon of war in Ukraine have put these agents in the spotlight once more

Gas masks in the trench

Claims of tear gas use against Ukrainian troops ‘insufficiently substantiated’

2024-05-09T13:56:00+01:00

Chemical weapons watchdog says more evidence is needed on whether Russia violated convention

Portrait of Zhang Yongzhen

Chinese scientist who published Sars-CoV-2 genome without approval regains access to lab

2024-05-08T13:30:00+01:00

Following Zhang Yongzhen and his team’s eviction from their lab, a protest appears to have forced a U-turn from authorities

DCM

Ban on most uses of dichloromethane finalised in US

2024-05-07T14:17:00+01:00

New rule phases out consumer use of the chemical within a year, and prohibits most industrial and commercial uses within two years

A BASF employee inspects the electrical cracker furnace

BASF’s electric cracker demonstrator goes online

2024-05-07T10:45:00+01:00

Collaboration with Sabic and Linde will test two different furnace designs

Taiwan earthquake

‘It’s devastating’: Taiwanese chemistry department destroyed in April earthquake

2024-05-03T08:30:00+01:00

Chemists are calling for the science community to be ready to help colleagues hit by disaster

Pesticide spraying

Call for EU to ban sale of pesticides already outlawed in the bloc

2024-05-02T09:20:00+01:00

Coalition of citizen groups argues that measure would cost few jobs and save lives, protect the environment in low- and middle-income countries

Sugar

Precious metal-free catalyst conjured using sugar can turn CO2 into chemical feedstock

2024-05-10T14:56:00+01:00

Simulations and analysis uncover more active metastable phase of molybdenum carbide

Electrolysis

Electrochemical acid–base reactions can be fine tuned to control reactivity

2024-05-09T08:30:00+01:00

Two new parameters can offer tunability to a wide range of electrochemical reactions

Figure

Ultracold snapshots reveals in exquisite detail how a bacterial flagellum rotates

2024-05-08T08:30:00+01:00

Studies explain how motor can flip from clockwise rotation to anticlockwise

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