Currently shipping is drastically affected, but so far there is little damage to hydrocarbon and chemical production facilities, but if the conflict is sustained, or spreads to production facilities, then the situation will change rapidly.
It isn't always easy to recreate a MOF from the methods section of a paper. The creators of a new data standard hope to make it much simpler in future.
Deuterium is in demand but separating it from water is energy intensive. An electrochemical approach to this problem counterintuitively relies on making water’s bonds stronger to radically improve separation.
Disparity is slowly improving, but the sentiment is clear: women remain severely underrepresented, particularly in the chemical and physical sciences.
A massive explosion at an industrial explosives factory run by SBL Energy near Nagpur on 1 March killed 19 people and injured 23 others. Separately, at least 22 people were killed and 15 critically injured in an explosion at Suryashree Fireworks in Andhra Pradesh on 28 February.
The low-emissions hydrogen industry either committed investment or started building around a million tonnes per year of production capacity in 2025, but cancelled over 4.9 million tonnes’ worth, as producers struggle to find buyers willing to pay a premium for renewable hydrogen.
75 years after ferrocene, a copper metallocene finally completes the series of sandwich complexes made with the 3d transition metals.
As society suffers a ‘crisis of expertise’, with specialist knowledge sidelined by popular opinion, Chemistry World columnist Derek Lowe offers some advice on how to pick your arguments.
Maxwell’s demon appeared to undermine the Second Law of thermodynamics by moving a system out of equilibrium. While there are flaws in that reasoning, enzymes may similarly help living systems to reach non-equilibrium conditions.
Food colourings quite neatly encapsulate many cultural clashes over the nature and safety of substances. Is a ‘natural’ colour safer or better than a synthetic one? Do high-dose hazards translate to real risks of harm? Where should regulators draw the line?
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As a five-year-old living in a tent in a remote Vietnam village, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen dreamt of capturing sunlight in a jar so she could study after dark. She now harnesses the sun’s rays through the development of organic solar cells.
In 2024, a team of marine geoscientists made a controversial discovery – 'dark oxygen' was being made on the seafloor. They're now returning to back up their original finding.
An unusual murder case reported in China in 2021 is one of only a handful of homicides known to have been committed using tetrodotoxin – the neurotoxin that makes pufferfish highly poisonous.
Put together by experts in science, regulation and more from the RSC’s India team, this new collection examines the opportunities and obstacles in India’s innovation ecosystem. Find out how India’s scientists can be empowered to serve society.
A small pilot study in the Gulf of Maine has shown that chemically increasing the ocean's alkalinity leads to it absorbing more carbon dioxide.
'Ukrainians are a strong nation – we persevere and continue to live and work.’ Four years on from the full scale invasion by Russia, Ukrainian scientists have hope and plan for the future.
Such compounds could act as nitrene precursors, useful to activate C-H bonds for drug synthesis, for example.
The new study shows it can be tamed, opening a route to enantioenriched tertiary alcohols.
Unravelling the unique reactions behind the sea sparkle phenomenon, with Rachel Brazil steering the way.
On 10 February, the US FDA told Moderna that it would not accept the company’s application for a new influenza vaccine – with senior leaders reportedly overruling FDA staff. A week later, the FDA has reversed its decision accepting the drug for review.
The EPA’s endangerment finding in 2009 allowed it to introduce restrictions on greenhouse gases from power stations and other sources.
Analysis of archived tree cores from Sweden shows that with rising carbon dioxide emissions trees will struggle to compete with microorganisms for nitrogen, slowing the growth of forests and reducing their importance as carbon sinks.
Learn how you can focus your efforts on compounds that are makeable and scalable, using modern retrosynthesis software and its ability to support everyday route design. Join Ewa Gajewska and Priyank Jain on 24 March.
The three – two skiers and a snowboarder – were only excluded from the events where their equipment tested positive for PFAS and were still able to take part in other events.
This exceptionally bulky ligand features trityl groups and a benzylated backbone that together create steric shielding that allows the isolation of rare low-coordinate metal complexes.
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India’s innovation ecosystem has obstacles – but also great opportunity. This collection by the RSC’s expert India team on science, regulation and more, explores how policy can empower India’s scientists to serve society.
Giant crystals, lemon batteries and elephant's toothpaste – school science staples that have made it into the Guinness World Records.
Before your next argument about what temperature to set the thermostat at, Andrea Sella explains how they work – and explores the history of the bimetallic strip that acts as a sensor in mechanical and older thermostats.
