“We’ve been calling it mycotecture,” Rothschild tells Newscripts, a portmanteau of “mycology,” the study of fungi, and ...

Since late 2021, Okorie has championed early-career chemists in the American Chemical Society’s North Jersey Section as ...

The New York City–based hedge fund Mantle Ridge has accumulated a $1 billion stake in the industrial gas firm Air Products and Chemicals and aims to influence changes at the company, according to a ...

Ineos says its purified terephthalic acid (PTA) plant in Geel, Belgium, which employs 600 people, faces possible closure over emissions of cobalt used in catalysts there. PTA is the primary raw ...

Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun receive prize for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene ...

Next month’s US presidential election is sure to affect scientists—but exactly how a win for Donald J. Trump or Kamala Harris would ripple through the chemical enterprise remains unclear.

When Alnylam Pharmaceuticals founding CEO John Maraganore left the company in late 2021, he joked that he wanted to be a “grandfather” of biotech—not leading any companies, per se, but ...

The Danish investment giant A.P. Moller Holding has created a business named Vioneo to make polypropylene and polyethylene in Antwerp, Belgium, from green methanol rather than oil or natural gas.

“The heroes here tonight are not make-believe heroes from Marvel Comics, but real-life heroes who have made an impact on ...

Antimalarials discovered over the last century have proved effective in fighting malaria. But the parasites that cause the disease often develop resistance to these drugs, leaving a demand for new ...

Chemists at Hokkaido University have experimentally confirmed the existence of a single-electron carbon-carbon bond for the first time (Nature 2024, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07965-1). Linus Pauling ...

A deadly, Ebola-like virus called Marburg is currently causing an outbreak in Rwanda. The country declared an outbreak of ...