EU court rules that inaccurate allegations of grant misuse damaged the researcher's reputation, career and health ...

Rebecca Trager meets a cross-disciplinary team investigating an ancient way to make yoghurt, which involved a trip to a tiny Bulgarian village ...

Methanol in alcoholic drinks kills thousands every year. How does this toxic compound enter drinks, why is it dangerous and what can you do to stay safe?

Scientists warn that non-animal methods are unlikely to ever replace animal testing, particularly in discovery science ...

With N2O emissions up 40% in four decades, scientists are searching for answers. Anthony King looks at potential solutions to keep fertiliser nitrogen in the soil ...

This year, the festival was themed around ‘The Science of Light’ and the organisers were keen to feature work from scientists. With her background in chemistry, coding and robotics – and interest in ...

James Watson, who shared the Nobel prize for his work on DNA’s molecular structure, has died at the age of 97.

A lawsuit in South Africa accuses petrochemicals giant Sasol of abusing its ethylene supply monopoly. The lawsuit has been brought by KAP Industrial, the parent company of Safripol, South Africa’s ...

Switzerland is once more officially part of Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and Euratom research and training programmes ...

Polymers formed from two-dimensional analogues of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) can be almost as impermeable to gases as graphene, researchers in the US have found. 1 The work could open up a ...

Two new catalytic strategies offer ways to boost the Fischer–Tropsch process by preventing competing side reactions. The methods could improve the industrial process’s efficiency and reduce its ...

A survey of chemists’ attitudes to correcting errors in scientific publications shows most prefer to discuss them informally with colleagues and students or to write privately to editors. However, the ...