2+ hour, 24+ min ago  (344+ words) A US Supreme Court ruling has backed Bayer'Monsanto's arguments'relating to more than 60, 000 lawsuits pending in US courts, claiming that exposure to the company's glyphosate weedkiller Roundup has contributed to cancer cases, and arguing that the company should have provided warnings…...

3+ hour, 36+ min ago  (245+ words) The public comment period for the proposal remains open until 13 July and so far more than 70, 000 comments have been received. The groundswell of concern has prompted researchers and scientific organisations like the American Chemical Society (ACS) to request a 45-day…...

5+ hour, 24+ min ago  (317+ words) Source: Supplied by Scribe Benjamin Oakes co-founded Scribe Therapeutics in 2017 "We're now essentially reforging these really interesting DNA-targeting technologies to something that looks a lot more like a therapeutic,' says Benjamin Oakes, chief executive of Scribe Therapeutics " a US-based genetic…...

22+ hour, 54+ min ago  (715+ words) Readers discuss stamp collection, half drops and more I read with interest the article "Molecules with largest dipole moments aren't due to electronegativity differences', which notes that "some of the trends seen in diatomics may not translate directly to more…...

23+ hour, 57+ min ago  (419+ words) From building the Centre for Pulse EPR at Imperial to probing electron transfer in real time, Maxie R'ler is pushing an overlooked technique into the spotlight Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy may not be as mainstream a technique for chemical…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (140+ words) Download the puzzles from the July 2026 print issue of Chemistry World There are four prize puzzles on this page: cryptic crossword; quick crossword; wordoku; and coronene. For each puzzle, a winner will be selected from all the correct entries received…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (562+ words) The author of the venerable'Physical Chemistry on how writing chemistry textbooks has changed over his career The first textbook that I wrote was Molecular Quantum Mechanics, which was published in 1970. Physical Chemistry came along in 1978 and its now in its…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (180+ words) Peter Atkins, Catherine Housecroft and Jonathan Clayden guide us through the changing world of textbooks" Source: " Royal Society of Chemistry Everyone remembers the textbooks they worked with at school or university. For me, Lubert Stryer's Biochemistry was my constant companion,…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (310+ words) The author of the authoritative Inorganic Chemistry textbook discusses how changing student attitudes have led the shift to digital resources Unfortunately, Sharpe passed away just after the third edition was published. I now continue to develop the book and it…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (849+ words) An author of the much-loved Organic Chemistry shares his insights on creating a chemistry textbook Stuart Warren, who was my Ph D supervisor, was approached by Michael Rodgers, a commissioning editor at Oxford University Press, to write a textbook on…...