18+ hour, 56+ min ago   (701+ words) Environmental Health Perspectives will be hosted on the ACS's website in the near future After the top journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) went dark in December after the Trump administration cut funding to its parent organisation, the American Chemical Society…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (737+ words) Jennifer Kingston was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry's Technical Excellence Prize, which honours the vital role of technical staff in the chemical sciences community Building the future of separation science - Share this on Facebook Share this on X (Twitter)…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1306+ words) When Donald Trump became US president for a second time a year ago,there were widespread fears that his administration would be catastrophic for the nation's research community. These fears have been realised, with investigations launched into more than 50 universities,…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (508+ words) Research-intensive universities have been targeted in an unprecedented and unrelenting manner since Donald Trump retook the White House on 20 January. In April, nearly a third of the 6000-plus members of the US National Academies of Sciences, which is a nonpartisan…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (151+ words) Ball milling is a straightforward way to produce organosodium reagents, potential replacements for organolithium ones that are becoming more expensive as lithium is in high demand for battery technologies The sodium analogue to ubiquitous organolithium reagents is now easily accessible…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (861+ words) Chiral control through halogen bonding could be the next frontier for organocatalysis "I personally think the reason these bonds have been underappreciated is the Lewis structure," says Stefan Huber, an organocatalysis researcher at Ruhr University Bochum in Germany. "It"s…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (344+ words) A new "50 million initiative aims to cut the length of time novel medicines spend in clinical trials, enabling patients to benefit from new treatments much sooner. The centre will build on the work of the MRC Clinical Trials Unit, which…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (406+ words) From structure confirmation to methodology improvements, making complex natural products has driven innovation in organic synthesis for decades. Nina Notman looks at its current state, with threats from funding to academic pressures This summary was generated by AI and checked…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (181+ words) Artifical intelligence is just the latest method to open up chemistry to more people Asking 700 people to guess how much an ox weighs produces better results than asking just one of them From a self-funded amateurish hobby, practicing science became…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (481+ words) The UK's New Year's Honours list for 2026 recognises several individuals from across the chemical sciences community. Among those included are researchers working in the nuclear industry, sustainable chemistry and forensic science. Claire Gallery-Strong was awarded an MBE for services to…...