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Chirality refers to two versions of a structure – be that light, molecules or crystals – that are almost identical but cannot ...

A new dysprosium complex retains magnetic memory at 100K, the highest temperature recorded for this class of compound. The researchers behind the work attribute the material’s properties to its ...

An injection that can prevent HIV infection for six months has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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Some online sleuthing showed this wasn’t a one-off occurrence, and Mahon found users of the internet forum Mumsnet seething ...

We’ve marked two important anniversaries in Chemistry World recently: 200 years since Michael Faraday first isolated benzene ...

Valentine Ananikov is the laboratory head at the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Russia.

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