Kemira signs deal on divestment of Kemira Fine Chemicals Oy

Edible algae-based cups, designed to reduce plastic waste at sporting events

JUGEND GRÜNDET National Finals 2025: ALTANA Special Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Student Duo from Heilbronn

ETH spin-offs sweep the board at Venture Awards

Brenntag Essentials acquires Gefahrstoffzentrum (GSZ) Kaiserslautern

Brenntag Essentials significantly enhancing its mixing and blending capabilities in Germany

Saint-Gobain acquires Maturix

thyssenkrupp nucera Signs an Agreement to Acquire Key Technology Assets from Green Hydrogen Systems

LUMITOS Celebrates Anniversary – From University Vision to Leading B2B Online Marketing Expert

Organic Growth Instead of Venture Capital: How LUMITOS Survived the Dot-com Crisis and Became Market Leader

On stream: BASF starts up new world-scale plant for hexamethylenediamine in Chalampé, France

“This investment underlines BASF’s strong commitment to chemical production in Europe...”

All good things come in threes: Dyphox is back

Start-up wants to build the world's first stellarator-based fusion power plant in the 2030s

Proxima Fusion raises €130M Series A: “Fusion energy is entering a new era—moving from lab-based science to industrial-scale engineering”

BASF starts commercial operation of Black Mass plant for Battery Recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany

JULABO Opens New, Climate-Friendly Facility in Lahr, Germany

Rigaku Completes New Building at Yamanashi Plant

Dramatic 2.7-fold increase in floor space to serve global demand

Sustainable Chemistry Changemakers: The Road Ahead

INNOVERDA: From ISC3 Start-up of the Month to Innovation Driver in the French Pharmaceutical Industry

Sensirion drives AI revolution in sensor technology

New partnership with Italian start-up Sintropy.ai and Repcom

Laboratory Technology in Focus: Future Labs Live Basel Achieves Attendance Record

Visienco Wins Start-up Competition

Brenntag opens first CO2-emission-free chemical distribution site

A global milestone in the industry

Sensirion Connected Solutions acquires Kuva Systems

Expand methane emissions monitoring portfolio

Great expertise on small particles - expert days on particle characterization at LUM France

Siemens and Hirano Tecseed, a Japanese machine builder, are partnering to transform battery manufacturing processes

Collaboration supports optimization and digitalization of battery manufacturing machines

digital lab day 2025 celebrates international success

virtual battery day 2025 follows in November

Chemists produce hexa-nitrogen for the first time - the most energy-rich substance ever formed

"...a huge advance in nitrogen chemistry": future application as environmentally friendly energy storage conceivable

PFAS: A novel path to breaking down “forever chemicals”

A new catalyst capable of cleaving strong carbon-fluorine bonds has been developed – potential use in pharmaceutical production

New Prospects for Green Ammonia

Study provides a blueprint for load-flexible production plant – and lower costs

Green hydrogen from Africa much more costly than previously assumed

Imports without guarantees are not competitive

Small but Mighty: Miniaturized Hydrogen Production

“We asked the biologically somewhat crazy question of whether we can’t just find a shortcut and let ferredoxin produce hydrogen”

Microbes transform plastic waste into paracetamol

How traditional chemistry can work with engineering biology to create sustainable chemical-producing living microbial factories

Like in Mission Impossible: Self-Destructing Bacteria Battery

Researchers develop dissolvable biobattery using probiotics for bioresorbable electronics that can degrade in the body

Insects as mini molecule-making factories, marking a breakthrough in chemical engineering

Caterpillar factories produce fluorescent nanocarbons

Two plant species invent the same chemically complex and medically interesting substance

Different building blocks: The plants use similar chemical pathways to biosynthesize these compounds, but use different starting materials and enzymes

Material substitution: artificial intelligence helps in the search for alternatives

Intelligent system searches scientific publications for substitutes for critical raw materials, e.g. in batteries

Brenntag opens first CO2-emission-free chemical distribution site

A global milestone in the industry

What we really breathe in

Filtered car emissions turn toxic after sunlight exposure

Hold the cream and sugar: black coffee linked to lower risk of death

Benefits diminished with additives

Unilever reaches new business arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel

Unilever announced it has reached a new arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel which will ensure the ice cream stays available to all consumers

New Microscope Brings Glowing Cells into Focus

A New Tool for Studying Life in Motion

Newly identified group of nerve cells in the brain regulates bodyweight

Potential for novel obesity treatments

Pineapple juice is scarce and expensive due to a small harvest

analytica expands its international network to the USA

US laboratory market with top growth forecasts

Tumor profiling: 43,000 data points against melanoma

Data-driven personalized treatments are about to become a reality

Ready for summer with the PINK LEMONADE from waterdrop®

Lab in a tube: Monitoring soil chemistry without disturbing it

How fructose increases the risk of inflammation

Even short-term high fructose consumption influences the immune system

Design2Market: New delivery box for Frittenwerk in just 6 weeks

Bruker Announces Acquisition of biocrates

The acquisition further enhances Bruker’s MS-based metabolomics solutions

Yeast Produces Human DNase1 for the First Time

The human protein is currently produced only in mammalian cells with considerable effort and money

Eating more sweet food may not sway sweet preference

Randomized controlled trial shows that eating more — or less — sweet-tasting foods didn’t change how much people liked sweet flavors

Ultra-thin lenses that make infrared light visible

Researchers have achieved this using a special metal-oxide lens material called lithium niobate and through nanoscale pattern, stamped into the material

Possible anti-aging compounds found in blood bacteria

These findings could lead to new treatments for aging skin

Label battle: Paulaner wins in dispute against Karlsberg brewery

Tumor diagnostics: AI model detects more than 170 types of cancer

Looking into the genome instead of into the tissue

Colorectal cancer screening via smartphone?

App-based early detection is as accurate as laboratory tests and could motivate more people to undergo screening

Replacing animal products with plant-based foods leads to weight loss in people with type 1 diabetes

New Body-Fluid Biomarker for Parkinson’s Disease Discovered

A misfolded protein facilitates reliable diagnosis even in the early stages of Parkinson’s disease in body fluids

Amphibian skin mucus as a potential weapon against multi-resistant bacteria and cancer

Researchers find antimicrobial peptides on axolotl skin that not only fight dangerous hospital germs but also tumour cells as an effective antibiotic alternative

The EPO unveils the top 10 innovators of the first standalone edition of the Young Inventors Prize 2025

Prize recognises innovators under 30 who are tackling Global Challenges through groundbreaking science and technology

New hope against superbugs: A completely new molecule has been identified

Promising antibiotic candidate discovered

Billion-Dollar Deal for Cancer Antibody: BioNTech and Bristol Myers Squibb Join Forces

"...an asset with significant potential for transforming the standard of care for patients with solid tumors"

A new method identifies rancid hazelnuts without removing them from the bag

digital lab day 2025 celebrates international success

virtual battery day 2025 follows in November

Cancer cells have an Achilles heel

"This basic research can form the basis for new therapeutic strategies against cancer"

Mondelēz International Continues Progress Against “Snacking Made Right” Priorities

How chemical bonds are formed: Observing energy flow in real time

Femtosecond spectroscopy makes chemical processes visible