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Meet diamondiyne, the new diamond-like carbon allotrope predicted 35 years ago
Unusual mix of sp and sp3 bonding could furnish porous material with unique properties
The PhD to biotech series: Clarifying your direction before you leave academia
In the first of a four-part series, Matteo Tardelli suggests some things to consider when deciding whether a move into industry is for you
Screening therapeutic peptides for ‘undruggable’ proteins
Revolver Therapeutics targets transcription factors that are hard to reach with conventional drugs and antibodies
Doctoral student who fatally shot his UNC Chapel Hill adviser found not guilty due to insanity
Three years after materials scientist’s killing, the culprit has been committed to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely
Accidents at South Africa’s nuclear power plant lead to questions over country’s nuclear future
Is the state’s nuclear regulator able to rise to challenge of planned installation of 5.2GW of nuclear power by 2039?
Feeding AI’s appetite for data
Tapping companies’ archives makes for better predictions of how proteins bind drugs, but any data inputs need to be transparent and attributed
PFAS chemicals represent a human rights threat, UN told
The UN’s current and former toxics advisers are urging an immediate ban on all non-essential uses of these chemicals
Colchicine total synthesis embraces electrochemistry
Route highlights how electrosynthesis, and to a lesser extent mechanochemistry, are becoming increasingly important to the synthetic chemist’s toolbox
Biomimetic foaming photopolymers offer new waterproof, white material
Light-activated polymers take a leaf from nature’s book in generating structural colour and hydrophobicity which researchers say could find a host of applications
Twisting 2D nanomaterials unlocks exotic quantum phases of matter
From superconductivity to fractional charge, strange and exotic states emerge when 2D nanomaterial bilayers are twisted into moiré superlattice structures. Chemists are joining force with physicists to explore a strange twisted world
US appeals court strikes down risk management rule for DCM
Judges rule Environmental Protection Agency’s methylene chloride risk management rule is badly flawed
Chemistry wordoku #160
This chemistry wordoku takes a look back at a chemical once sprayed on a kitchen staple
Quick chemistry crossword #109
Consider yourself a person learned in the secrets of alchemy when tackling this quick chemistry crossword
Cryptic chemistry crossword #151
You may find the clues to this cryptic chemistry crossword ’very dry but right blend (4)’
Letters: September 2026
Including a call for you to share your low-stakes mistakes
EPA to revoke emissions limits on fossil fuel power plants
Trump administration estimates that its action will save over $300bn, but opponents criticise decision to ‘eliminate limits on climate pollution’
Record protein imaging resolution could be bridge to quantum crystallography
Exceptional resolution a move towards mapping distribution of electrons in proteins
Who will win the 2026 Nobel prize in chemistry?
Annual list of ‘citation laureates’ includes scientists behind base editing, self-assembled monolayers, and those who improved our understanding of electron transfer in proteins