Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have been found to contain all five nucleobases, adding to evidence that life’s building blocks exist elsewhere in the solar system. The ...

Aluminium redox catalysis and reactive aluminium clusters showcase main-group element's transition-metal-like reactivity ...

Antimony-nitrogen interactions yield materials with enhanced stability and the ability to self-heal in aqueous environments ...

Analytical chemist Friedrich Strassmann played a crucial role in discovering nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, but his principled opposition to Nazi ideology nearly destroyed his career ...

New, improved formulations of frequently used organolithium reagents that improve on safety, prevent pyrophoric reactions and ...

Physicist Sofia Papa has won this year’s Dance your PhD competition with a contemporary-style routine that re-creates the ...

Join us live for a two-part interactive workshop and explore how modern data visualisation and exploratory data analysis (EDA) support rigorous, insight-driven scientific work. As scientific data ...

Cone snails deploy sophisticated venom cocktails to paralyse prey. Anthony King talks to the researchers harnessing these ...

Deyond hydrocarbons, helium and sulfur - byproducts of petroleum extraction - have also been critically affected by Iran's ...

After years of conflicting safety findings, the head of the state's environmental hazard assessment office says this new study should 'ease concerns' ...

A survey of NIH-grantees in Massachusetts reveals delayed hiring in labs, layoffs, careers being pursued abroad and research ...

The synthesis of methanol from carbon dioxide can be dramatically improved by switching the catalyst support from zirconia to ...