A new review of recent studies shows the great apes rely on medicinal plants to heal infections, but the plants’ chemistry ...

As modern warfare weaponizes the very air we breathe, chemists should leverage their skills and knowledge to detect, neutralize, and reclaim toxic atmospheres in the world’s most devastated conflict z ...

Companies that broker and facilitate scientific fraud are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, according to a new study.

During cognitive decline, lithium is sequestered into amyloid plaques; treatment with the metal reverses symptoms ...

We may be on the cusp of a new era of biochemical discovery, but turning these advancements into drugs isn’t so easy ...

After almost 15 years, the influential scholarly journal Science has retracted a controversial paper about the discovery of a microbe able to use arsenic instead of phosphorous in its biochemical ...

Nature will begin publishing all peer review comments. Other journals should follow suit ...

“Lead to gold is one of those things that the experiment was not designed for,” Takaki tells Newscripts. The LHC was designed to smash lead ions into each other, but the ALICE researchers found that ...

Microplastic pollution has likely been traveling in the atmosphere for decades. Researchers want better tools to study its effects on climate, ecology, and human health.

Most of the world’s polysilicon is made in China, and the US solar industry is encouraging suppliers to increase production elsewhere. Solar companies argue that a less-concentrated supply chain ...

The fight against fungi With hard-to-treat systemic fungal infections on the rise, scientists search for new ways to bolster our antifungal arsenal ...