Actinides are a group of heavy, radioactive elements that include uranium, plutonium, americium, curium, berkelium and californium. Understanding how these elements bond with other atoms (known as ...

Hands‑on learning: Pittcon emphasizes immersive instrument interaction; attendees can work directly with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gas chromatography (GC), mass spectrometry (MS), ...

Pittcon returns on 7–11 March 2026, bringing the global scientific community together at the Henry B. González Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The Conference runs from 7–11 ...

The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here. Last Wednesday, I sat in Green Hall having an ...

Your beauty and skincare products are full of fats and oils. They’re what makes that cream so moisturizing or that emollient so good at repairing your skin barrier. Often, those lipids come from palm ...

WEST LAFAYETTE — A science writer, two technology CEOs and a venture capital firm co-founder will headline Purdue University's Presidential Lecture Series this spring. The series will be held in ...

Perhaps a thousand separate conclusions could be reached on why the New York Mets' season fell apart as it did last summer. Going from 45-24, the best record in Major League Baseball in early June, to ...

Speeding up drug discovery in the age of AI may come down to a concept that's comfortingly old-fashioned: Consulting a chemistry recipe book. It makes perfect sense. Designing a new synthetic molecule ...

Chemistry can be a messy, sluggish business, frequently involving cocktails of chemicals in round-bottomed flasks that must later be painstakingly separated. But in 2001, K. Barry Sharpless and his ...

Speeding up drug discovery in the age of AI may come down to a concept that’s comfortingly old-fashioned: Consulting a chemistry recipe book. It makes perfect sense. Designing a new synthetic molecule ...

Clear Spring historian David Wiles has created a lecture about 19th-century winter life in Clear Spring. The presentation will be delivered by Douglas Claytor at 2 p.m. Jan. 18 at Plumb Grove Mansion, ...

Tom Serfass is scheduled to present Reintroducing River Otters at 7 p.m. Jan. 15, at the National Conservation Training Center in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The event is free and open to the public ...