A US appeals court has struck down a key Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule banning all consumer and most industrial uses of the solvent dichloromethane (DCM), also known as methylene chloride ...

Annual list of 'citation laureates' includes scientists behind base editing, self-assembled monolayers, and those who ...

Trump administration estimates that its action will save over $300bn, but opponents criticise decision to 'eliminate limits ...

The team used a tailored x-ray beam with a uniform intensity known as a ‘top hat’ beam. Its size and shape can be adjusted to ...

Compounds that enhance selected protein-protein interactions to interfere with signalling or send proteins to be destroyed ...

Aria announces support for 19 research projects that aim to develop tools to make precise, controlled changes to ...

Amid several high-profile departures of prominent US-based chemists for China, including chemistry Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi, ...

Using this method to transform sulfides into sulfur decreases the need for additional oxidants to neutralise wastewater ...

A new technique produces hydrogen radicals using mild conditions and off-the-shelf reagents. The method eliminates the harsh conditions that have previously been required to generate these extremely ...

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Two people were killed and 114 plant workers and nearby residents injured by an ammonia leak at a plant run by Iraq’s State Company of Fertilizers in the Khor Al-Zubair industrial area of Basra on 13 ...

Avtar Singh Matharu is professor of green chemistry and deputy head of department at the University of York in the UK. He ...