“Lead to gold is one of those things that the experiment was not designed for,” Takaki tells Newscripts. The LHC was designed to smash lead ions into each other, but the ALICE researchers found that ...

During cognitive decline, lithium is sequestered into amyloid plaques; treatment with the metal reverses symptoms ...

Companies that broker and facilitate scientific fraud are large, resilient, and growing rapidly, according to a new study.

We may be on the cusp of a new era of biochemical discovery, but turning these advancements into drugs isn’t so easy ...

Nature will begin publishing all peer review comments. Other journals should follow suit ...

The journal cites experimental error as the reason for the decision, which comes nearly 15 years after the paper’s ...

As the world gets wetter, studying a water cycle in flux is a major challenge. ‘You cannot bring a cloud into a laboratory,’ ...

Gutting the National Climate Assessment is just one way the Trump administration is undermining the legal justification to limit greenhouse gas emissions ...

The tendency of Nobel Prizes to recognize solo scientists in privileged spaces needs some reflection Victor Ambros and Gary ...

Persistent Pollutants A guide to the PFAS found in our environment Chemical structures and origins of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that are polluting our world A class of synthetic ...

Explore Graphics Periodic Graphics Periodic Graphics A chemistry infographics collaboration between C&EN and Andy Brunning, chemistry educator and author of Compound Interest.

C ommercials for drugs all share one noticeable feature: a long list of side effects that the voice-over must read. The list sometimes can be longer than the rest of the ad, observes Denise Okafor ...