Chemistry

Explainer: what is thermal paper?

Sharpening chemical intuition

Near-Earth asteroid samples contain all five nucleobases key to life

Self-healing polymers emerge from the first use of pnictogen bond crosslinks

New studies highlight emerging potential of aluminium(I) chemistry

California finds no significant risk to human health from synthetic turf fields

Fritz Strassmann: the principled chemist who discovered nuclear fission

Physicist's piezoelectric pirouettes claims top spot at this year’s Dance your PhD competition

US researchers are advising students not to enter academia

Photocatalytic skeletal editing technique migrates substituents to challenging meta-position

Widening impact of conflict in Iran

Two US states warned suspension of new tech visas for universities will hurt science

Sunlight-driven process upcycles polystyrene waste and elemental sulfur into valuable organic compounds

Atomic radii & synthetic food dyes

Polytope formalism offers a new way to chart chemical space