Chemical reactions are the backbone to nearly all biological processes, including those used to make new medicines. However, ...

In 1828, German chemist Friedrich Wöhler synthesized urea from inorganic compounds, a substance previously thought only ...

A pair of surgical scissors from the Ming Dynasty tomb of physician Xia Quan. (Ling et al., Antiquity, 2026) This Week In ...

Scientists have uncovered a strange hidden structure formed during the creation of metallocenes, a class of sandwich-like ...

A chemical compound essential to all living things has been synthesized in a lab in conditions that could have occurred on early Earth, suggesting it played a role at the outset of life. A chemical ...

Society depends on chemistry far more than we consciously realize, from medicines to energy to electronics. However, chemistry is viewed with as much apprehension as gratitude, because of the ...

Medicinal chemistry, also known as pharmaceutical chemistry, is a branch of chemistry focused on the development of new drugs and the improvement of existing ones. It is an interdisciplinary field ...