Researchers and science sleuths have raised the alarm after uncovering hundreds of doctored images of validation Western ...

DSTL has been supporting investigations into the use of chemical weapons for over 25 years - here's how it does its job ...

The materials chemist on being a scientific contrarian, his love of cricket, and what AI might mean for materials science ...

A new study suggests Europe could spend more than €100 billion (£85 billion) a year remediating PFAS pollution while still ...

The first hints of what's behind the seemingly illogical mismatch between photochemical reactivity and absorptivity could ...

Lawsuit alleges 3M, Chemours, DuPont and others knowingly sold polluting products, and seeks damages and cleanup cost ...

Driven by recycling limitations in South Korea, chemists have made hydrogen from plastic waste with less than half the carbon ...

The UK’s Defence and Science Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has officially opened a new, state-of-the-art NMR suite at its site in Porton Down, Salisbury. ‘“What’s in a sample?” may seem like a simple ...

Creatures that survive extreme conditions like mind-boggling temperatures and toxicity challenge how we define life. Bárbara Pinho finds out how it will impact how we search for life beyond Earth ...

Spin–orbit coupling causes molecular orbitals to behave in fundamentally different ways in heavier elements Triple bonds take on a very different shape in heavier atoms where relativistic quantum ...

‘Whether a metal can truly act as a genuine proton acceptor for a C–H donor has long remained an open and controversial question in chemistry,’ says Jun Chen at the Fujian Institute of Research on the ...

Radio telescopes have detected a four-carbon sugar in the interstellar medium, which is the largest non-cyclic molecule and the first sugar to be identified. The researchers say this shows that chiral ...