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A researcher who lost an arm when her laboratory experiment exploded in March 2016, has reached a settlement of £5 million ...

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An analysis of US surface water monitoring records has found that less than 1% of chemicals of potential environmental ...

Sustainable by design solutions in adhesives usually compromise on strength and stickiness. Now, a group of chemists has ...

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Chemistry came alive in a reimagined form at the 75th Yusuf Hamied Chemistry Camp for Visually Challenged Students, hosted at ...

Drug discovery efforts based on DNA-encoded chemical libraries are inadvertently overlooking numerous potential drug ...