The 2024 ACS Sustainability Summit explored the vital role of chemistry in advancing U.N. Sustainable Development Goal #6: Clean Water and Sanitation. Thoughout the summit, leading experts in academia ...

While in the desert, one of humankind’s most pressing needs becomes even more dire: the need for water. A team of scientists came together to address this problem using chemistry to develop a device ...

We've gone to the bottom of the ocean to study how its chemistry shapes our planet's climate, even chasing lava-spewing ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for a versatile technology that can be used for an astonishing variety of purposes, from environmental remediation to drug delivery and energy ...

Organic chemists have tended to avoid using water to host reactions, largely because their carbon-based molecules rarely dissolve in the liquid. Now, Burkhard König at the University of Regensburg has ...

UC Berkeley chemist Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for research that his Irvine startup Atoco is commercializing into atmospheric water harvesters. The technology extracts water from ...

Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry Heiner Linke makes a demonstration, next to Secretary General of the Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, and Member of the Nobel Committee for ...

We are long overdue in converting the practice of organic chemistry to a sustainable discipline. It is time to think about the state in which we are going to leave the planet, as present day synthesis ...

They developed a new form of molecular architecture with large spaces through which gases and other chemical substances can flow The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 has been awarded to the Japanese ...

Karl Jobst of Memorial University tested water in Torbay homes and found PFAS, also known as forever chemicals. More than half of the 15 properties he checked near a local wetland had contamination ...