WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 2025 — The American Chemical Society (ACS) is announcing the results of its recent election. Society ...

Four recent papers detail how food waste contains sustainable solutions for farming and new sources of bioactive compounds ...

Researchers report in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces that they have created a paper-thin LED that gives off a warm, ...

On behalf of the American Chemical Society, President Dorothy J. Phillips congratulates today’s winners of the Nobel Prize in ...

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To promote the environmental and economic benefits of developing and using novel green chemistry. The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards recognize novel green chemistry technologies that reduce or ...

Mountains of used plastic bottles get thrown away every day, but microbes could potentially tackle this problem. Now, researchers in ACS Central Science report that they’ve developed a plastic-eating ...

Designated August 29, 2013, at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center in Albany, California. Flavor is caused by receptors in the mouth and ...

Infamous for their environmental persistence and potential links to health conditions, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often called forever chemicals, are being discovered in unexpected ...

Izaak Maurits Kolthoff (1894–1993) has been described as the father of modern analytical chemistry for his research and teaching that transformed the ways by which scientists separate, identify, and ...

On June 3, 1947, on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, a young chemistry student from Queens received her Ph.D. At the time, she didn’t know she was making history. Working with Mary ...

The language is dry and academic, as is appropriate for the abstract of a scientific paper in the prestigious journal Nature. The research described in the short paper, however, fell like a scientific ...