Joined by CRISPR luminaries Feng Zhang and J. Keith Joung, the Harvard chemist raises up to $87 million in funding

Big investments are planned in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Algeria to diversify away from oil and gas

Agency plans legal limit on four PFASs in drinking water, creating liability for PFOS and PFOA contamination

Company expects to slim its home country head count by 600

Engineering two organic molecules for better compatibility boosts the conversion efficiency of polymer solar cells to 14.2%

The portable devices haven’t yet caught on widely. Researchers continue to advance the technology and find new applications

Researchers are simultaneously shrinking mass specs and broadening their tandem capabilities

Decades in the making, miniature mass spectrometers still face technical hurdles to wider commercial adoption

Mini mass specs are key components of Mars rovers

San Jose State’s Claire Komives is testing an antivenom inspired by opossum biochemistry against various snake species to prevent deaths in the developing world

Dynamic boron-oxygen networks are key to the new material’s unusual properties

New obligations for industry as the region and other areas target the causes of marine litter

The first goal is to thwart the outbreak, but researchers also hope for new insights into combating the virus

A new report from the Cancer Research Institute highlights the U.S. and China as cell therapy leaders

With so many ingredients on hand, can the oncology community figure out how to sensibly and efficiently combine checkpoint inhibitors with other drugs?

The abundance of carbon-13 relative to carbon-12 reveals whether the key component of white truffle aroma originates from a natural or synthetic source

Sources of pollution differ but models predict more deaths in rural areas because of higher populations there

To relieve itch and pain without undesirable side effects, chemists put a kill switch on capsaicin

Metal may play sleep role through an enzyme responsible for synthesis of norepinephrine

Questions remain about the safety and effectiveness of alternative solvents

After attracting BASF, catalysis expert seeks other partners for a new batch of projects

Combining vibrational circular dichroism and infrared spectroscopy yields real-time probe of asymmetric catalytic reactions

Rapid improvements in the stability and efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem cells are raising commercial hopes

Pairs of surfaces taking like charges confound researchers

The startup is developing allosteric activators to increase levels of the vital metabolic molecule coenzyme A in pantothenate kinase-associated neurodegeneration

Cultural change needed to prevent injury to female faculty, students

Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning wrings all the molecular details out of the popular goo

Headlines about plastic-eating organisms belie tough, competitive road to development

Flat, macrocyclic host captures fullerene guest with CH–π interactions

To relieve itch and pain without worrisome side effects, chemists put a kill switch on capsaicin

Technique breaks gallium alloy’s insulating oxide layer

Program trains participants to contribute their subject-matter expertise to Wikipedia

Experts urge water industry to study plastic pipes’ vulnerability

In confined spaces, water’s dielectric constant drops dramatically, according to new measurements

ATSDR daily dose numbers for PFOS and PFOA are one-tenth those of EPA

Molecular logic gates allow personal glucose meters to respond to many other targets

These exotic materials could find applications in electronics, catalysis, and quantum computing