Accolade for Dow
The Dow Chemical Company has been recognised as a Top 100 Global Innovator by Clarivate Analytics for the sixth consecutive year.
Formerly known as the Thomson Reuters Top 100 Global Innovators, the list annually recognises...
Research project is out of this world
The first school experiment to test if plant cuttings build roots in zero gravity was sent to the International Space Station (ISS) in a project supported by BASF.
The VP30 trial, designed by Maria Koch,...
Company takes on threat to the citrus industry
Life sciences company Bayer has set out a programme of activities which use chemicals to combat a disease threatening the global citrus industry.
Brazil, China and the United States are the biggest orange producing countries,...
Young talent is recognised
The American Chemical Society (ACS) hosted the finals for the Chemistry Champions competition at its national meeting in Philadelphia. Mallory Hinks, a graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, was voted the 2016...
Drug targets killers
Scientists are a step closer to providing treatments for three connected diseases after making a chemical which can kill the parasites that cause the illnesses.
Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and human African trypanosomiasis, also known as...
Scientists are honoured
The American Chemical Society has announced three scientists as winners of the 2016 ACS Nano Lectureship Award for outstanding contributions to the field of nanoscience and nanotechnology.
This year’s award winners are Lifeng Chi,...
New power source could take robotics to the next level
Researchers have set out their ideas for new types of power sources to allow robotics to meet its full potential.
The researchers, who presented their work at the 252nd National Meeting & Exposition of the...
Call for reform
The EU chemical industry has called for a reformed European Emissions Trading System (ETS) that enables allocation of free carbon allowances.
ETS is designed to cut industrial carbon emissions from European manufacturing facilities and recent...
Company uses carbon dioxide in production process
Covestro has launched a plant in Dormagen near Cologne in Germany that uses carbon dioxide as a raw material in the production of plastics.
The company is, for the first time, using carbon dioxide instead...
Organisations come together to boost sportswear recycling
BASF is among ten organisations from industry and science working together on a project to increase recycling in sportswear.
Led by adidas and funded by the European Commission, the three-year Sports Infinity project aims to...