Sensor lights up to reveal scopolamine, a common substance used for sexual assault

A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) has led the development of a new sensor capable of quickly and ...

How a persistent chemical enters our surface waters: Modeling TFA formation and distribution in the atmosphere

PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are not called "forever chemicals" for nothing. These ...

World’s oldest poison-tipped arrow discovered in South Africa

For thousands of years, hunters around the world have employed poison-tipped arrows to assist in taking down prey. For ...
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First experimental validation of a “150-year-old chemical common sense” direct visualization of the molecular structural changes in the ultrafast anthracene [4+4 ...

The research team has successfully achieved the following breakthroughs in the well-known anthracene [4+4] photocycloaddition ...
Nature

Structure-based drug design articles from across Nature Portfolio

Structure-based drug design is the design and optimization of a chemical structure with the goal of identifying a compound suitable for clinical testing — a drug candidate. It is based on knowledge of ...
Nature

Chemical physics articles from across Nature Portfolio

Chemical physics is concerned with the application of the concepts and theories of physics to the analysis of chemical systems and their physical behaviour. While also at the interface between physics ...