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Award-winning chemist Zhang Wei leaves US to join China’s Great Bay University

Zhang Wei, former chairman of the chemistry department at the University of Colorado Boulder, has returned to China to join Great Bay University (GBU) as a full-time faculty member...

Rudolph Marcus, Caltech chemist who won Nobel Prize, dies at 102

He developed formula that upended scientific understanding of how molecules use energy.

A grad student's claim about a lethal liquid closed MIT's chemistry building

MIT's building that houses its Department of Chemistry was shut down on August 27 after a grad student "self-reported to a local emergency room and claimed to have synthesized dime...

Breaking down LSD to unlock new therapeutic discoveries

In a result that is already sending ripples through the fields of neuroscience and drug design, chemists at the University of California, Davis have performed something akin to a m...

International Team Synthesizes Unexpectedly Stable Strongly Bent Sandwich Molecule

An international team of chemists at Saarland University has shattered long-standing beliefs in inorganic chemistry by successfully synthesizing a novel ferrocenophane molecule fea...

Chemistry Earns National Packaging Recognition

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Cyclopropanol doubles as caged warhead for selective electrochemical bioconjugation

Switched On by Electricity: “Caged” Cyclopropanol Warhead Lets Chemists Label Proteins Inside Living Cells at Will Inside every living cell, a chaotic molecular bazaar is in full s...

Chemists Defy Decades-Old Rules With “Free Electron” Breakthrough

Free electrons offer chemists a new way to control reactions that conventional electron transfer rules would normally prevent. Inside a reaction flask, an electron can determine wh...

ACS Announces 2026 Green Chemistry Challenge Award Winners

Hideki Shirakawa, Who Helped Turn a Lab Error Into a Nobel, Dies at 90

The Japanese chemist played a key role in the discovery of electricity-conducting plastics, largely by accident.

AI and Quantum Chemistry Reveal Dual-Modulated Catalysts for Next-Gen Fuel Cells

Fuel cells promise a cleaner path to large-scale energy conversion, but cathode performance is still held back by sluggish oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) kinetics. Platinum cataly...

Disordered Atoms Organized into Rows and Columns Enable Sustainable Catalysis

Scientists have created an unusually ordered version of a chemically complex alloy that could help reveal how advanced electrocatalysts work atom by atom. The material combines iri...

Rudolph Marcus, Who Illuminated Electrochemical Processes, Dies at 102

He received a 1992 Nobel Prize for developing a theory that explained fundamental processes behind photosynthesis, respiration, oxidation and even how fireflies produce light.

SandboxAQ’s goal to find PFAS-free alternatives for the semiconductor industry

The Silicon Valley startup developed an advanced computational method to also help find alternatives for rare-earth-free magnets, catalysts and batteries in the sector, said Stefan...

Scientists Crack the Code for Making “Impossible” Nanocrystals

A molten salt method developed by researchers at UChicago and Argonne could enable more durable materials for printed electronics and flexible devices. Nanocrystals have become so...

Nobel-winning Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa dies at 90

Shirakawa, who won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2000 for developing conductive polymers, a key component of modern touch screens, died late last month.

Hebrew University Congratulates Haim Sompolinsky on Receiving 2026 Dirac Medal

Theoretical physicist and neuroscientist Haim Sompolinsky has been awarded the 2026 Dirac Medal and Prize, one of the most prestigious international honors in theoretical physics....

Quantum Crystals Reveal a Mysterious Optical Glow

In a breakthrough that could transform the study of strongly correlated quantum matter, researchers at the University of Basel and the Technical University of Munich have developed...

Ligand-Guided Radical Orientation Enables Asymmetric Cyanation of Unstabilized Alkyl Radicals

A new copper-catalysed reaction could give chemists a powerful way to create chiral molecules from some of the most difficult intermediates in organic chemistry: highly reactive, u...

The Role of Chemistry in Modern Product Safety

Modern product safety often starts at the molecular level. See why chemistry plays such an important role in creating products people can depend on. Source

Electrochemist Liu Jiawei moves from Singapore to Hong Kong to start her own lab

For materials scientist and chemist Liu Jiawei, moving to Hong Kong supported her pivot into launching her own research group. After a decade immersed in Singapore’s research ecosy...

“Unique Chemical Labs” by Louis Casimir Explores the Fascinating World of Chemistry

Author Louis Casimir introduces “Unique Chemical Labs,” a book that invites readers to explore the intriguing world of chemistry through a collection of ideas, experiments, o...

Nobel-winning chemist criticizes visa curbs as he relocates from US to China

Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has criticized increasingly restrictive visa policies in the United States and other Western countries, warning they are undermining internat...