Chemistry News

Scientists have developed a unique method to authenticate the purity and origin of cacao beans, the source of chocolate’s main ingredient, cocoa. A...

A large multinational team of researchers has documented very high levels of molecular chlorine – as high as 400 parts per trillion – in the...

A team of researchers led by Prof Artem Oganov of Stony Brook University has shown that, under certain conditions, ordinary rock salt can take on some...

Perfluorotributylamine – a chemical used in the electrical industry – has the potential to contribute significantly to global warming, according...

A team of scientists reporting in the Journal of Proteome Research has cracked the secret of the black Périgord truffle’s unique, pungent aroma. The...

Nineteen elements – including gold, arsenic, fluorine, cadmium, molybdenum and thorium – have been assigned new atomic weights, according to...

Researchers from Japan and Indonesia have developed the first scientific method to verify authenticity of exotic Kopi Luwak, the world’s most expensive...

A team of researchers reporting in the journal Analytical Chemistry has developed an innovative complex method for verifying the authenticity and rooting...

Australian chemists have developed a potential new antibiotic that could help in the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria, including the methicillin-resistant...

A new study reported in the journal Nature Chemistry has filled a significant gap in the scientific understanding of how alcohols are formed and destroyed...

In ground-breaking experiments conducted at the radioactive isotope facility ISOLDE at CERN, a multinational research team has investigated the atomic...

U.S. researchers have designed a new computer algorithm that can model and catalogue the entire set of carbon-containing molecules, and created a map of...

By studying a bright blue pigment used in Ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago, U.S. chemists have uncovered clues toward the development of new nanomaterials...

A team of chemists from Finland and Canada has been able to identify the mechanism that enables some non-metal compounds to mimic the reactivity of their...

An international team of scientists has used a new empirical model to explore how gold atoms bond to other atoms. Gold crystals (Alchemist-hp, www.pse-mendelejew.de...

Scientists have revealed new details on a 2,300-year-old beak-like weapon that an ancient warship used to ram enemy vessels in the First Punic War, the...

In the run-up to the London 2012 Olympics, a team of scientists from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the University of Warwick and IBM Research – Zurich...

British scientists have developed a harmless, straightforward and inexpensive technique for removing gold from fossils. Image shows a 300 million year...

A team of scientists from the University of Gothenburg and Stockholm University has found large quantities of sulphur and iron compounds in marine archaeological...