Category: 6. Chemistry

A group of research integrity experts has launched a series of guidelines on how to be an effective sleuth.

Unveiled on 4 June, the Collection of Open Science Integrity Guides (Cosig) contains 27 handbooks that collectively explain how to carry…

In 1825, Michael Faraday discovered one of the most fascinating compounds in chemistry: benzene. While isolating the components of oily residues of illuminating gas, Faraday identified a mysterious liquid, with a peculiar aromatic smell,…

For many chemistry students, benzene is the Proustian madeleine. Nothing conjures up those hours in the organic chemistry lab trying desperately to crystallise your products more vividly than the almond whiff of benzene derivatives. However…

In his lab, pharmacologist Rob Henning delights in the feats of hibernating mammals. The garden dormouse exits hibernation quickly, rising from 4°C to 37°C in about two or three hours. Henning has a trick that allows him to take advantage of…

In his lab, pharmacologist Rob Henning delights in the feats of hibernating mammals. The garden dormouse exits hibernation quickly, rising from 4°C to 37°C in about two or three hours. Henning has a trick that allows him to take advantage of…

There’s an old phrase: what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. This phrase has been in my head for months with every ideological lurch in US government policy. The implications for science, but even more importantly for the health and…

Twenty of the world’s top experts in per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have serious concerns about a project to redefine this family of environmentally persistent chemicals that is being led by the International Union of Pure and…

The first neutral nitrogen molecule – other than dinitrogen – has been isolated and characterised by researchers in Germany. The molecule, the most energetic ever synthesised, is effectively stable at liquid nitrogen temperatures, which could…