Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week

1-step method creates a coating that slays infection-causing bacteria

The start-up uses Nobel Prize–winning science to expand drugmakers’ options in making peptide drugs

Meet the companies rethinking how we make medicines, food, materials, and more

Protamine’s role in a sex-selection arms race may be why it evolves so quickly

Test your knowledge about the processes that make these pen inks appear and disappear

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The Scorpion Therapeutics spin-off is going after proteins involved in cancer and other diseases

Winners’ research areas include more-sustainable aquaculture biomass, autoimmune diseases, and human blood coagulation

Our contributor recalls flamboyant scientific demonstrations to get students excited about chemistry and what inspires audiences today

Biotechnology could help the US break China’s monopoly on the minerals used in clean energy technologies

<i>Fire and Gold</i>: The Art of Alchemy exhibit will be on permanent display at the Science History Institute

Biotechnology could help the US break China’s monopoly on the minerals used in clean energy technologies

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The 2026 chemistry Nobel announcement sparked a frenzy of chirality fact-checking. Turns out, nailing stereochemistry is tough for everyone.

The 2026 chemistry Nobel announcement sparked a frenzy of chirality fact-checking. Turns out, nailing stereochemistry is tough for everyone.

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Patrick Hsu, David Nagib, and Jonathan Rivnay work in a range of chemistry-related fields

The event will take place Nov. 14–17 at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington

Christy L. Haynes, professor at the University of Minnesota, will lead the journal starting Jan. 1, 2027

Companies at the CPHI pharmaceutical ingredient convention say demand remains strong

I discovered adults eager to learn. Let's do more to reach them

The event will take place Nov. 4–7 at the Renasant Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee

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At the Human Proteome Organization World Congress, researchers turn from building tools to finding out what they can do

Koza-sei system led to sidelining of associate professors, pressuring them to leave

From Windex-blue sapphires to alga-green ketchup, researchers expand the palette

Test your knowledge of our stories on the Nobel Prizes this week

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Experimental topical combines an egg-targeting head lice drug with a compound derived from mānuka oil

As shortcomings of the agents become apparent, researchers are proposing strategies to help them improve their outputs

Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week

Ultrafast method tracks structural changes as trans morphs into cis

Chemistry is key to the success of current and future space missions

Legislation introduced last week could speed up federal approvals for energy and other major projects, but its fate remains uncertain

Supramolecular assembly can transmit its chiral information to single molecules