Shocked to learn how little plastic gets recycled, the duo founded a company so they could make a difference

Lucy Therapeutics founder is taking an atypical approach to finding drugs for central nervous system diseases

Her company, MicroByre, is proving that wild microbes can be engineered to produce useful chemicals

With Prieto Battery, the Colorado State professor has redesigned the lithium-ion battery from the bottom up

With Curie Co., the entrepreneur designs alternatives to compounds like parabens that have fallen out of favor with retailers

Nanotech pioneer aims to pursue grand challenges rather than just write about them

Prolific biotech business founder says she's always on the lookout for problem-solving opportunities

Nobel Prize winner wants to solve real-world problems with directed evolution

The gene-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 rerouted Doudna's career path. What hasn't changed for the renowned scientist and serial entrepreneur? Living and breathing the science

With guest editor Jennifer Doudna, CRISPR pioneer

Concerns over the spread of the novel coronavirus leads to decision

Spring lineup of conferences and events frequented by chemists is slashed

Ammonium salts may serve as nitrogen reservoirs on the icy bodies, suggesting a common origin for comets and the sun

Graduate student Safia Jilani shares what she learned from this year's conference

#ACSPhilly is one of many scientific conferences postponed or canceled because of concerns over COVID-19

Tobacco-related compounds probably transported on smokers' clothes and bodies

Technique lets chemists control 3 variables independently and at micrometer resolution

Peru seeks to keep rudimentary gold refining from exposing communities to neurotoxic metal

Chemical companies prepare as the monolithic information technology platform known as ERP undergoes radical transformation

Specialty chemical CEOs are rolling with the punches to keep their firms going

Qiagen vows to ramp up production of kits as scientists turn to social media to plea for donations

Chemical companies, breweries, and perfumeries take to making and donating a vital commodity in short supply

Posters and presentations can be uploaded to SciMeetings starting on March 19

Veterans of teaching chemistry online offer advice for professors challenged by the COVID-19 pandemic

Polyaniline coating changes the firing frequency of targeted neurons

Tearing and cutting lead to measurable debris from various forms of plastic

Large, disordered pores allow the gel to capture soil without damaging pigments

Ammonium salts may serve as nitrogen reservoirs on the icy bodies, suggesting a common origin for comets and the sun

Chemical makers, cleaning product firms, and cosmetics makers are all scrambling to meet new limits on the impurity

The first female CEO of a European chemical major begins a financial, social, and environmental overhaul of one of the oldest chemical firms

Strategy reduces volumes and times needed to evaluate CO₂-switchable systems

Companies are making their machines and expertise available to hospitals in need of parts

Industry is deemed essential critical infrastructure by federal and state governments

The simple reaction could be an easy way to synthesize new molecules for drug discovery

Many are FDA-approved drugs that could be repurposed

Nearly perfect, long-lasting crystalline catalyst turns CO₂ into valuable products

E-cigarettes deliver lead, arsenic, nickel, and other metals at harmful levels

Qiagen vows to ramp up production of kits as scientists turn to social media to plea for donations