The Royal Society of Chemistry’s (RSC’s) immediate past president, Gill Reid, is one of several members of the chemical sciences community to have been recognised in the UK’s 2025 new year honours ...

Invented by American dentist Barnabas Wood (1819–1875), whose life is shrouded in mystery I’m pretty squeamish. Not for me the iconic eye scene in Luis Buñuel’s film Un chien Andalou. In hospitals, my ...

Fraser Stoddart, who shared the Nobel prize in chemistry with Ben Feringa and Jean-Pierre Sauvage in 2016 for his work on molecular machines, has passed away aged 82. A pioneer in supramolecular ...

There are four prize puzzles on this page: cryptic crossword; quick crossword; wordoku; and coronene. For each puzzle, a winner will be selected from all the correct entries received and awarded a £25 ...

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Understanding mouthfeel: Mouthfeel, the tactile sensation of food and drink in the mouth, is a crucial but often overlooked component of flavor. It includes sensations like astringency, which is the ...

Researchers at UK universities have adapted the text-based machine learning system GPT to predict crystal structures of inorganic materials, even though it can’t directly represent three-dimensional ...

It was once not uncommon for researchers to make batches of festive alcohol. The preps involved steeping fruit in alcohol and adding spices, before final distillation. The glassware was always kept ...

The programme that funds higher education facilities in the UK is performing well, according to an interim report, and is successfully enhancing research infrastructure and fostering strategic ...

A rare example of an antiaromatic hydrocarbon that’s stable at room temperature has been made using a straightforward and completely reversible oxidation reaction. While annelation with other π ...

Eight years after Agatha Christie used potassium cyanide spiked champagne as a weapon in Sparkling Cyanide, a real-life double homicide case featuring the same deadly cocktail hit US newspapers in ...