Researchers have discovered a new method by which a catalyst can be used to selectively burn one molecule in a mixture of hydrocarbons -- compounds made of hydrogen and carbon atoms.

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Adding fluorine to drug molecules can be tricky, but is often worthwhile. Rachel Brazil talks to the chemists trying to tame ...

Makuch, an astrobiologist at Technical University Berlin, has put forward a striking theory suggesting that NASA's Viking ...

The Washington State Department of Ecology is proposing a ban on certain chemicals in cosmetics that have been linked to ...

A team of researchers led by Katherine Bermingham from Rutgers University in New Brunswick has discovered that water did not ...

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