While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into ...

This year the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists — Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi — for the ...

“Mineral-only” sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of “chemicals”, a belief that “mineral” products are inherently safer, and confusion about how sunscreens ...

Chemists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a methodology to enable coupling reactions for the ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

In a world that often seems to imply that we can shop our way to a solution to anything, Eliot Coleman’s message to gardeners and farmers is starkly different, and has been for some 50 years. Coleman, ...

Derek McLachlin, a Western University biochemistry professor, tells The National about the moment he turned Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You into an educational song for his students. Trump scraps tariffs on ...