A group of RNA veterans is launching a new start-up aimed at getting RNA-interfering (RNAi) molecules into the brain to silence the genes that cause neurodegenerative diseases. Called Aerska, the ...

The aurora borealis is a spectacle of space weather, but solar flares and coronal mass ejections have far more Earthly impacts ...

The Trump administration may take a stake in Lithium Americas, Syensqo reopens a synthetic vanillin plant, Genmab inks $8 billion deal for Merus, and more.

A simple one-step process recovers more than 90% of rare earth elements (REEs) from magnets ( Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2025, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2507819122).

The American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee (WCC) presented its Overcoming Challenges Award to Mikayla Swatscheno, a chemistry and biochemistry student at the University of West Florida ...

In 2022, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Chanda an Antiviral Drug Discovery (AViDD) grant that provided him with $67 million to develop drugs against future pandemics and do what he ...

Brianna: Sure. It’s about sort of the current state of this fast-growing subfield of organic chemistry known as skeletal editing, which in short is sort of the art of developing reactions to alter ...

These crystals of xylindein are a rare sight, according to Nojus Osinskas, a chemistry student at the University of Chicago. Under most conditions, the fungal quinone pigment forms an amorphous solid ...

Soils with a variety of microplastics may allow microbes that perform denitrification processes to thrive; this could cause soils to lose nitrogen while the microbes produce nitrous oxide, a ...

Brigham City is caught in a public health battle pitting uncertain health risks against decades of clear dental benefits ...

Using historical data, the MIT team concluded that a 40% reduction in funding over the past 45 years would have affected more than 50% of new drug approvals since 2000.

A meeting of chemical executives showcased innovative examples of sped-up science but struggled to address the elephant in the room ...