While scientists have long known that iron oxide minerals help lock away enormous amounts of carbon—sequestering it from the ...

The annual organic chemistry poster symposium is the RSC Organic Chemistry Community’s flagship event for early career researchers. Dedicated to posters from some of the best final year organic ...

A new computational approach developed at the University of Chicago promises to shed light on some of the world's most ...

The mid-nineteenth century saw the development of a radical new direction in chemistry: instead of simply analyzing existing molecules, chemists began to synthesize them—including molecules that did ...

Scientists reveal how iron-rich soil minerals chemically trap carbon using multiple nanoscale bonding mechanisms.

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.

Scientists cultivating partnerships of fungi and algae believe their invention has far-out implications for how we create the ...

The benefits of an organic mattress go beyond just a good night’s sleep. The best organic mattresses feature materials organic latex, cotton and wool, all of which we know contribute to a cleaner, ...

Materials chemistry involves the use of chemistry for the design and synthesis of materials with interesting or potentially useful physical characteristics, such as magnetic, optical, structural or ...

Self-healing at 77 K reveals a crystal-based mechanism that does not rely on molecular diffusion ...

Chemists have developed a new charge-carrying molecule that possesses liquid-like conductivity even in the solid state ( ...

You might be familiar with how Python and C can work together, by way of projects like Cython. The new PythoC project has a unique twist on working with both languages: it lets you write ...