A US bankruptcy court judge has indicated he will approve the $7.4 billion (£6 billion) settlement deal agreed between 15 US states, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family who own the company. The deal, ...

Yet it quickly became evident from talks by Simon Yates from AstraZeneca (AZ) and Marius Lutz from Roche, that building a robot capable of even the routine tasks a human chemist performs is still a ...

A straightforward asymmetric strategy has led to the creation of elusive nitrogen stereocentres. The carefully designed intramolecular reaction used substrate engineering to overcome the ...

Propellants in asthma inhalers produce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to driving 200 miles, yet most healthcare systems overlook this climate impact. New low-carbon alternatives are in ...

The researchers captured eight unique structural models and 16 cryogenic electron microscopy maps of the receptor with both naloxone – which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose – and loperamide ...

EU court rules that inaccurate allegations of grant misuse damaged the researcher's reputation, career and health ...

Methanol in alcoholic drinks kills thousands every year. How does this toxic compound enter drinks, why is it dangerous and what can you do to stay safe?

Rebecca Trager meets a cross-disciplinary team investigating an ancient way to make yoghurt, which involved a trip to a tiny Bulgarian village ...

With N2O emissions up 40% in four decades, scientists are searching for answers. Anthony King looks at potential solutions to keep fertiliser nitrogen in the soil ...

This year, the festival was themed around ‘The Science of Light’ and the organisers were keen to feature work from scientists. With her background in chemistry, coding and robotics – and interest in ...

James Watson, who shared the Nobel prize for his work on DNA’s molecular structure, has died at the age of 97.

Switzerland is once more officially part of Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and Euratom research and training programmes ...