A new method to capture carbon dioxide from the air has been developed at the University of Helsinki's chemistry department.

Canadians learned how plants make a rare natural substance—mitraphylline—with its potential for fighting cancer as a ...

Robots are starting to do in a few days what medicinal chemists once needed months to attempt, churning out hundreds of potential antibiotic molecules and testing them against dangerous bacteria at ...

Spruce bark is rich in phenolic compounds that protect trees from pathogenic fungi. A research team at the Max Planck ...

A new superbase compound captures 156 mg of CO2 per gram and releases it using low heat. Pulling carbon dioxide straight from thin air usually comes with a heavy energy price. A new compound developed ...

Matthew Addicoat receives funding from EPSRC and the Royal Society. The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them.

In a striking demonstration of automated chemistry, researchers have used a robotic synthesis platform to rapidly generate ...

We often wonder what life and environmental conditions would be like on other planets. Scientists have speculated scenarios both similar to what we have on Earth and also completely different from ...

Imagine looking through a fogged-up car window. You can see shapes and movement on the other side, but everything is blurry, the colors muted. Now imagine if that’s what the world looked like every ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...