Stories by Chemistry World

Carbon nanotubes, solar cell material, and gene-editing are in crystal balls for next week's announcement

Electronic devices that decompose on schedule will be a boon to security tech and medical implants

Peroxides at a Texas plant, owned by the company Arkema, are “one small step away from ignition”

Agency devotes more resources, speeds reviews of chemicals, earning plaudits but concern that studies were not careful enough

But being bad is good for tiny circuits that start and stop current

New skin protectant is a transparent film, not a lotion, but shows remarkable properties

Perovskite is a lauded new solar cell material, and high-speed images show how its atoms react to light

Fictional physicist Sheldon Cooper’s catchphrase has been brought to life in the lab

Tower’s “skin” was filled with flammable core though fire-retardant versions were available; many more structures at risk

Idea was that birds are drawn to smell of plastic garbage, but research may have looked at the wrong birds

Casein, used in artistic buttons and now coffee creamer, got started when a cat got rowdy in a lab

New measure, to take effect in 2018, relies on crystal that is free of impurities

Volcanic springs and deep-ocean vents get new evidence

Even in salmon season the bears eat lots of plants—and later gorge mostly on salmon brains

Researchers blocked from financial dealings in U.S., but sanctions may have little impact

You can't carry everything you need from Earth, so researchers made 3-D–printed shapes with mocked-up Mars dust

New measurements revise the limits of quantum fuzziness

Soil-living animal is one of the rare creatures that use this potent poison

Sulfur emissions cause acid rain but a chemical reaction can remove almost all of the substance

Traces of the lethal chemical, smeared on Kim Jong-nam’s face at a Malaysian airport, can penetrate skin and kill fast

Deer and opossums on an Oklahoma highway harbor microbes with helpful chemicals

It stands just under three micrometers tall, carved with a scanning electron microscope

U.S. trade agency requires products say there is no scientific evidence for effectiveness

Tiny molecular machines will chase around a gold track in a 38-hour sprint