A new review of recent studies shows the great apes rely on medicinal plants to heal infections, but the plants’ chemistry ...

As modern warfare weaponizes the very air we breathe, chemists should leverage their skills and knowledge to detect, neutralize, and reclaim toxic atmospheres in the world’s most devastated conflict z ...

During cognitive decline, lithium is sequestered into amyloid plaques; treatment with the metal reverses symptoms ...

We may be on the cusp of a new era of biochemical discovery, but turning these advancements into drugs isn’t so easy ...

Companies that broker and facilitate scientific fraud are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, according to a new study.

F or a chemistry undergraduate focused on synthesis, pivoting to a PhD in physics is a bold move. But that’s exactly what Sascha Feldmann did—unlocking a research career that fuses materials ...

The “arsenic life” microbe came from Mono Lake, a highly alkaline, arsenic-rich body of water in California. Credit: Al Ungar/Shutterstock In the retraction notice, H. Holden Thorp, Science ...

“Lead to gold is one of those things that the experiment was not designed for,” Takaki tells Newscripts. The LHC was designed to smash lead ions into each other, but the ALICE researchers found that ...

Nature will begin publishing all peer review comments. Other journals should follow suit ...

Microplastic pollution has likely been traveling in the atmosphere for decades. Researchers want better tools to study its effects on climate, ecology, and human health.

The deep-sea mining dilemma The seafloor is rich in minerals vital for a clean energy future, but extracting them could have long-lasting environmental impacts ...