All Chemistry World articles in October 2025
This month, we investigate how employers are breaking down barriers and harnessing the talent of neurodivergent people through workplace adjustments and recruitment reforms. Plus the latest news, research and opinion from across the chemical sciences.
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NewsUncovering the fraudsters and their schemes responsible for polluting the scientific literature
Analysis claims poor quality articles containing faked data are in danger of overwhelming journals
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ResearchRecoded E. coli strain shows that life can function with significantly compressed genetic code
Researchers remove seven codons from E. coli’s genetic code
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ResearchRule-breaking reaction unlocks a new level for photoredox catalysis
Sidestepping photophysical principle harnesses higher energy states
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ResearchNew adhesive is so sticky it can glue a rubber duck to a seaside rock
Features of 25,000 biological adhesives analysed to create glues stronger than any found in nature
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ResearchMolecular motor stitches together catenane rings
The light-powered system produces interlocked rings, without the need for templating strategies
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ResearchScientists turn to candles to make complex multi-metal nanoparticles
Method could be a simple and cheap way to make electrocatalysts with up to 25 metals
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NewsTrump’s latest rule on research grants sidelines scientific merit and adds bureaucracy, academic groups warn
A new White House directive will see political appointees vet federal research funding decisions
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NewsNegotiations to create a global plastic pollution treaty collapse again
Geneva meeting descends into chaos with hastily revised treaty text rejected by member states
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ResearchBranched polymers protect cell mimics that can interact with biological cells
Dendritic polymers encase coacervate microdroplets, enabling them to closely mimic natural cells
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NewsAmerican Chemical Society announces new support for at-risk master’s and PhD chemistry students
$2.5 million programme launched to fund 100 students whose PI’s grants were cancelled by the Trump administration
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ResearchAI enables quicker search for MOFs to soak up carbon dioxide
Thousands of candidates screened allowing the best to be investigated experimentally
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ResearchProtein prediction AI could help reactivate dormant immune system in crops
Precision engineering could be used to return natural immunity to crops that have lost it over time
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ResearchAntibiotics designed with the help of AI attack bacteria in entirely new ways
Two new compounds display potent activity against deadly drug-resistant bacteria
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ResearchMagnets could be simple way to enhance oxygen generation on a mission to Mars
Strategy sets free gas that normally gets trapped on electrodes in microgravity during water splitting
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ResearchModelling suggests waste heat from AI data centres could power carbon capture and water purification
Analysis considering thermodynamics, economics and emissions shows how AI could flip its environmental footprint to become both water-positive and carbon-negative
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NewsTool backed by Apple will help electronics manufacturers swap out unsafe chemicals
Manufacturers of chemical cleaners and degreasers for electronics will have registry of safer, more sustainable chemicals to use in their products
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BusinessFour dead after nitrogen leak at pharma factory in India
Incident at Medley Pharmaceuticals’ Boisar–Tarapur plant leaves two others in a serious condition
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Research30-year-old solar panels still going strong
Reliabilities of modules manufactured in the late 1980s and early 1990s provide design lessons for modern photovoltaics
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NewsProportion of US students taking chemistry fails to keep pace with other science disciplines
Across Stem fields, chemistry had by far the lowest percentage increase in bachelor’s and PhD attainment between 1997 and 2023, data reveals
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ResearchUnrecovered byproducts from US mines could meet the country’s demand for dozens of critical materials
Huge quantities of metals and other elements are discarded each year in mining waste