The Roots of Public Mistrust: Science, Policy and Academic Integrity

UK Research and Innovation harmonises doctoral training cutting 9 programs to 2

Standard Atomic Weights of Three Technology Critical Elements Revised

Gadolinium, lutetium, and zirconium all have new atomic weights

Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

The race to commercialise nuclear-powered batteries

Attitudes one can take towards people who have behaved badly

Easy to remove tag could make mRNA synthesis for vaccines quicker and cheaper

Skeletal editing technique removes nitrogen atoms from rotaxanes

New database highlights gaps in plastic monitoring efforts

Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism

The Saga of Celebrated Scientist John Calhoun and His Rodent Dystopia

Graphene oxide sponge soaks up gold from electronic waste

Lessons from a Nobel laureate teach us how to think better

Sanofi spins out its consumer healthcare business

Online archive of Humphry Davy's notebooks opens to the public

The Key of Hell: An 18th-Century Manual on Black Magic

Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari (ca. 1830)

A collection of Halloween postcards from "golden age" of picture postcards

Arithmetic is an underrated world-modeling technology

Why protein design and structure prediction won the 2024 Chemistry Nobel Prize

Make It Awkward: Awkwardness is a chance to rewrite the social script

The supersonic dream died in the 20th century. Can the 21st century revive it?

Therapeutic proteins can hitch a ride on parasite to bypass blood-brain barrier

Chemical 'waves' used to encode words as Morse code

Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard

Dielectric Breakdown: Imaging study illuminates new type of electrical tree

Chinese-born chemist cleared of last conviction under US’s espionage probe

Computer program 'paints' porphyrin structures in the style of Piet Mondrian

Solzhenitsyn Warned Us

Is DNA the future of digital data storage?

"You Are My Friend": Early Androids and Artificial Speech

Physical chemistry textbook now free to download as a 'gift' to the community

Scrabble, Anonymous

Irresistible Revolution: Remember what waking was like before smartphones?

Jim Simons, Code Breaker Who Mastered Investing, Dies at 86

Illuminating Antiaromaticity

New mechanism potentially linked to Alzheimer's earliest stages identified

Screening reveals 'undrugged, yet druggable' proteins

Liquid metal synthesis of diamonds achieved at atmospheric pressure

Signs and Wonders: Celestial Phenomena in 16th-Century Germany

Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater's Occult Chemistry (1908)

Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)

Self-dyeing vegan leather made by genetically engineered bacteria

£124M national electron microscope facility to be constructed in Cheshire

Amazon is filled with garbage e-books, this is how they get made

A key chemistry journal disappeared from the web. Others are at risk

Monitoring PFAS pollutants in king penguins

Chemists and linguists encode Confucian proverb using sequence-defined polymers