In 2001, chemists K. Barry Sharpless, Hartmuth C. Kolb, and M. G. Finn introduced click chemistry, a concept in which organic ...

Matthew Addicoat receives funding from EPSRC and the Royal Society. The universe is flooded with billions of chemicals, each a tiny pinprick of potential. And we’ve only identified 1% of them.

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Natural sunscreens shield the skin from harmful radiation, without triggering allergic reactions. In a recently published ...

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...

Since the 1960s, the hallucinogenic drug ibogaine has piqued interest as a potential treatment for opioid addiction, fueled by limited experimental evidence and anecdotal claims by those who claim ...