At the recent India Maritime Week, the government announced that the state-owned Shipping Corporation (SCI) would buy more than 200 merchant ships of practically all types through joint ventures with ...

Turning methane into ethylene with sunlight sounds like alchemy, but it is rapidly moving into the realm of practical chemistry. A new generation of solar-driven catalysts promises to convert a potent ...

Scientists in the US have developed a low-cost nickel catalyst that breaks down mixed polyolefin waste without pre-sorting.

Advanced Textiles Expo returned to the Midwest, a region with thousands of fabricators. This resulted in many first-time ...

Surface-bound gels may have offered the structure and chemistry needed for life to take hold on Earth—and possibly elsewhere.

UCLA scientists have characterized the structure and function of a key survival protein in breast cancer cells that helps ...

A new chemical method that could speed up the creation of medicines, materials and products people rely on every day has been ...

Inside human cells, biology has pulled off the ultimate packing job, figuring out how to fit six feet of DNA into a nucleus ...

"Mineral-only" sunscreens are making huge inroads into the sunscreen market, driven by fears of "chemicals," a belief that ...

Chemical insight into biological function is the holy grail of structural biology. Small molecules are central players as building blocks, effectors and probes of macromolecular structure and function ...

Structure-based drug design is the design and optimization of a chemical structure with the goal of identifying a compound suitable for clinical testing — a drug candidate. It is based on knowledge of ...

DLR, Airbus Helicopters, Fraunhofer and TU Dresden work in the NATURE project for environmentally friendly aviation ...