Chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have synthesized a new class of carbon nanostructures: fully π-conjugated, pentagon-embedded non-alternant carbon nanobelts (CNBs). This ...

Nearly 5 months after several companies voluntarily agreed to recall select acne products due to elevated benzene levels, uncertainty remains regarding any clinical risk with the formulations that ...

Ontario’s Green Party leader is calling on the provincial government to do more to protect Aamjiwnaang First Nation from benzene emissions.

The method has applications in organic chemistry, particularly within the pharmaceutical industry. A team of scientists has developed an electrochemical technique that enables precise, para-position ...

Budget cuts pit NASA’s burgeoning space telescope against other projects, and marking the 1825 isolation of benzene, in our weekly dip into Nature’s archives. Snippets from Nature’s past.

Each year, over 350 million tons of plastic are produced, much of it ending up in landfills or the ocean. A major contributor ...

Palladium is the most versatile and widely used metal for catalytic molecular transformations. Owing to its high cost and limited availability, there is a strong demand to improve its catalytic ...