Calcium bicarbonate crystals synthesised for first time
Published: October 21, 2025 13:30
Scientists fill ‘historical gap in textbooks’ to resolve the crystal structure of this simple yet elusive mineral
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Calcium bicarbonate crystals synthesised for first time
Published: October 21, 2025 13:30
Scientists fill ‘historical gap in textbooks’ to resolve the crystal structure of this simple yet elusive mineral
Going round in circles over skills
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/going-round-in-circles-over-skills/4022360.article
Published: October 21, 2025 08:45
Closing skills gaps in key professional groups requires collaboration between government, industry and educators
AI company will pay authors $1.5 billion in damages after using their copyrighted works to train its models
Published: October 21, 2025 08:30
Academics set for payouts of $3000 for each book that was illegally downloaded
All stirred up: chemical engineers refute claims that ‘stirring doesn’t matter’
Published: October 20, 2025 13:30
Failing to mix reactions in heterogeneous or industrial systems could cause numerous issues and might even be dangerous, preprint claims
Neural network trained to classify crystal structure errors in MOF and other databases
Published: October 20, 2025 11:07
Study serves as a reminder that machine learning models are only as good as the data they are trained on
AI tools tackle paper mill fraud overwhelming peer review
Published: October 20, 2025 08:33
With more article submissions and fraudulent activity than ever before, journal peer review processes are creaking under the pressure. Nina Notman discovers how AI and automated tools are taking some of the strain
Dihydropyrazine-embedded macrocycles behave like supersized cycloalkanes
Published: October 17, 2025 13:47
Giant molecular rings that mimic the puckered shapes of cyclobutane, cyclopentane and cyclohexane could offer new insights into conformational dynamics
BASF sells coatings business to Carlyle in €7.7 billion deal
Published: October 17, 2025 13:32
Deal covers automotive and surface treatment businesses and follows earlier sale of decorative paints
Cardiff University scales back proposed cuts to chemistry department following consultation
Published: October 17, 2025 08:30
Department still set to merge with two others but there will be no compulsory redundancies
Walter Kohn: from kindertransport and internment to DFT and the Nobel prize
Published: October 17, 2025 08:30
Join us on 25 November as we explore the legacy of Walter Kohn, the 1998 joint winner of the Nobel prize in chemistry
The lost treasure of electron microscopy
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-lost-treasure-of-electron-microscopy/4022285.article
Published: October 16, 2025 13:30
Unpublished images should be brought to light to aid science communication and speed up discovery
More than 97% of electron microscope images remain unpublished
Published: October 16, 2025 13:30
Huge datasets that would be a valuable training aid for AI are being lost
Restoring integrity: tackling fraud and data manipulation in scientific research
Published: October 16, 2025 11:33
Join us on 27 November to learn how you can fight back against fraudulent research and paper mills
‘Stimulating discovery’ leads to strategy to swap oxygen in saturated rings
Published: October 16, 2025 08:31
Skeletal editing pushed beyond aromatic structures, sparking new opportunities in drug discovery
UKRI announces changes to simplify and improve efficiency of fellowships
Published: October 16, 2025 08:30
Changes introduced to make fellowships easier to manage and understand
How the pioneers of metal-organic frameworks won the Nobel prize
Published: October 15, 2025 14:50
From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry
Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Lab and home of Mars rovers loses 10% of its staff
Published: October 15, 2025 13:53
The dismissal of 550 JPL workers is the fourth round of recent layoffs at the lab, prompting fears of a brain drain
‘Making MOFs is the most fun I have ever had in the lab’
Published: October 15, 2025 12:46
A personal connection to the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry
At least 16 dead in factory and chemical warehouse fire in Bangladesh
Published: October 15, 2025 09:53
Smoke and gas from chemical fire trapped and killed factory workers
The chemistry community should ban drawing chemical structures with generative AI, chemists warn
Published: October 15, 2025 08:30
AIs like Microsoft’s Copilot, Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT still make serious errors rendering structural formulae
Chiral chemical fuels trigger two very different supramolecular self-assemblies
Published: October 14, 2025 13:30
Handedness of self-assembling peptides might explain the origins of homochirality in biological systems
16 dead in US munitions factory explosion
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/16-dead-in-us-munitions-factory-explosion/4022316.article
Published: October 14, 2025 12:22
Plant levelled by blast, whose cause remains under investigation
Maternity lab coat aims to close a gap in PPE market and end unsafe practices
Published: October 14, 2025 09:22
Genius Lab Gear wants to stop trend of pregnant women creating Frankenstein lab coats with a tailored and adjustable lab coat
23 Indian children’s deaths linked to contaminated cough syrup
Published: October 14, 2025 09:19
Dietheylene glycol contamination highlights consequences of poor inspection and enforcement
Five ways AI can help your career
https://www.chemistryworld.com/careers/five-ways-ai-can-help-your-career/4022289.article
Published: October 14, 2025 08:32
From exploring career options to mastering interviews
The molecular mechanisms behind cell cognition
Published: October 13, 2025 12:30
Condensate formation is central to how budding yeast cells decide their response to environmental and internal conditions
Coblentz’s infrared spectrometer and the overlooked power of vibrations
Published: October 13, 2025 08:30
Vibrational spectroscopy’s intuitive insight into molecular structure was initially shunned by chemists
Ultrapotent thrombin inhibitor combines peptide fragments from a trio of blood-sucking organisms
Published: October 10, 2025 11:53
Hybrid molecule featuring leech, tsetse fly and flea peptide fragments binds thrombin at three sites
Have MOFs now made it?
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/have-mofs-now-made-it/4022302.article
Published: October 10, 2025 09:05
Will Nobel prize speed porous materials to commercial success?
My arcane and curious connection to metal-organic frameworks
Published: October 10, 2025 08:40
Fernando Gomollón-Bel uncovers a link between his hometown and the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry
Electron transfer plays an underappreciated role in battery charging cycles
Published: October 10, 2025 08:15
Ion transfer alone does not explain charging and discharging rates of lithium-ion batteries
Meet the three scientists who have just won the Nobel prize in chemistry
Published: October 9, 2025 09:58
Learn about the lives of newly minted chemistry Nobel laureates Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi