Large language models are powering a new generation of AI agents that could transform computational chemistry from a specialist discipline into one any researcher can use, reports Julia Robinson

Staff warn cuts would leave the department without the resources to teach Leicester's growing student population

From wooden models to thousands and thousands of structures, Julia Robinson tells the story of how Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel prize in chemistry

Research explained how body protects itself from the immune system, offering new ways to treat autoimmune disease

Citation analysis tips scientists for work on greener lithium-ion batteries, single-atom catalysis and biomolecular condensates

Chemistry World talks to the head of research analysis at the Institute for Science Information on how they decide which researchers are producing Nobel-worthy research

Trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide is a photo-initiator used to harden nail polish under UV light

Some regions face a future with fewer chemists

Learn about the history and importance of the gender gap currently impacting women's health sciences - Join us on 28 August

Prior to the ban, almost seventy million single-use e-cigarettes were being discarded each year in the UK - containing enough lithium for a thousand electric vehicle batteries

For centuries, the default subject in medicine research and training has been the male. Julia Robinson talks to the scientists and clinicians trying to improve things for the other 51% of humanity

Many medical conditions affect only women, or affect them disproportionately, but women's health has historically been neglected in medical research. In this collection, we look at the gender gap in h...

Clarivate's Nandita Quaderi tells Chemistry World why the firm has recently delisted over 100 journals

Reports of children falling ill have led to calls for public health advice to be updated

Up to 10 chemistry staff could be made redundant under the proposals

Zero-emissions cars are dominated by batteries but some carmakers think hydrogen still has a part to play

Proposed closure has been averted although MSc and MChem programmes will end

More students in the UK are studying chemistry at A-level than 20 years ago, but how does that translate to universities?

The university joins several others that are considering the future of their departments and undergraduate programmes