Researchers invented programmable nanoclay to advance discoveries in chemistry, engineering, and other scientific fields.

Scientists report using a simple process to stabilize an unruly binary chloride molecule, manganese trichloride.

Two new papers on nitrogen compounds help describe the nitrogen cycle with greater detail and precision than was previously possible.

Further investigation into the spontaneous formation of hydrogen peroxide from water may explain why flu cases peak in winter.

Research on cancer drugs shifted course to produce a longer-lasting version of avobenzone, a common ingredient in sunscreen.

Using a method called flash Joule heating on coal fly ash more than doubled the yield of most of the rare earth elements, say researchers.

Researchers report synthesizing setigerumine I, an alkaloid molecule found in trace amounts in the poppy family Papaveraceae.

Scientists have found a way to create the Parkinson's drug L-DOPA and the amino acid proline out of garbage materials.

Plastic is cheaper and easier to produce and throw away than it is to recycle. A new method can upcycle it into valuable molecules.

A new study overturns a 130-year-old assumption about the chemistry of seawater. The main finding? It's not stay the same across the whole ocean.