Chemistry and Chemical Engineering News

In a scientific advance literally plucked from the waste heap, scientists have described a key step toward using the billions of pounds of waste chicken feathers produced each year to make one of the more important kinds of plastic

Princeton researchers have invented an extremely sensitive sensor that opens up new ways to detect a wide range of substances, from tell-tale signs of cancer to hidden explosives

Innovation could eliminate, once and for all, the fog on eyeglasses, windshields, goggles, camera lenses, and on any transparent glass or plastic surface.

A new microscope invented by scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute's will let researchers use an exquisitely thin sheet of light -- similar to that used in supermarket bar-code scanners -- to peer inside single living cells

Borrowing a page from modern manufacturing, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have built a microscopic assembly line that mass produces synthetic cell-like compartments

Imagine a material that's stronger than steel, but just as versatile as plastic, able to take on a seemingly endless variety of forms

Most people cross borders such as state lines without thinking much about it. Yet not all borders are places of limbo intended only for crossing

Scientists have created a diamond-like lattice composed of gold nanoparticles and viral particles, woven together and held in place by strands of DNA

A non-superconducting material has been transformed into a superconductor using light, Oxford University researchers report

Analysis by a UCLA-led team of scientists has confirmed the discovery of the oldest complete wine production facility ever found