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‘Chemistry changed the world before, we just need to do it again’: Stockholm declaration reimagines future

Paul Anastas talks to Chemistry World about organising call for chemistry to transform itself and make the world more sustainable

Jun 04, 2025

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Winery cuts costs with carbon capture pilot plant that uses metal–organic framework

Chinese researchers charged with smuggling plant pathogen into the US

Fluorine surprises by becoming heaviest atom ever to quantum tunnel

Light-driven catalytic system makes ammonia from nitrogen and water

US plans to close Chemical Safety Board by October

What are the prospects for making green hydrogen straight from seawater?

NSF chemistry funding faces 75% cut under Trump budget request

Sanofi to buy Blueprint Medicines for over $9 billion

‘Chemistry changed the world before, we just need to do it again’: Stockholm declaration reimagines future

Chemists urged to build a greener future by Stockholm declaration document

Non-hallucinogenic psychedelics

Strain can unlock electron-donating orbital in tetravalent carbon atoms

Alan Turing papers expected to sell for thousands after narrowly missing the shredder

AFM maps the way collagen unfolds and refolds in the body

Crispr Nobel laureates get another chance to claim ownership in long-running patent dispute

Liquid carbon characterised in the lab for the first time

US government to ‘aggressively revoke’ Chinese students’ visas

Explainer: Why is the UK banning disposable vapes?

Designer protein switches conformations like a natural one

University of Akron calls off plan to merge chemistry-related programmes

Polymer membrane separates hydrocarbons, offering alternative to distillation

Explosion and fire at Chinese chemical plant kills five

Clarivate to exclude retracted content when calculating impact factor

Selective C–H bond fluorination enables conformational reporting in a complex natural product

French chemist receives two-year research ban for repeated integrity breaches

Nanocomplex becomes a master of shape-shifting to target tumour cells

There is unexpected chemistry going on in lithium deposits

UK government announces 10-year budgets for R&D

Blown up brain cells’ connections and chemistry traced at incredible molecular resolution

‘I worked on it little by little, with the help of a beer’: Making MOFs out of paper

How to make metal–organic frameworks and cages out of paper

A year on from the announcement of the dichloromethane ban, US research labs brace for change

Super-shielded carbene is stable in liquid water

Trade deals stave off Trump’s tariffs temporarily

Trade deals stave of Trump’s tariffs temporarily

PFAS regulations for US drinking water are being dismantled after just a year

3D printing deep in the body using ultrasound could deliver drugs, heal wounds

ERC increases funding offer to support scientists moving to Europe

Snuff tube residues push back date of oldest hallucinogen use in Peruvian Andes

Eight companies are selling authorships of UK ‘design patents’

Glycoconjugate-caged drugs offer better way to treat inflammatory bowel disease

How Clarivate is clamping down on bad actors in academic publishing

Bridging the gap between Hammett parameters and the electronic structure of aromatic systems

Universities and academic groups join forces to fend off Trump’s attacks

US approves natural food dyes while pushing to phase out synthetic colours

Engineered microbe could clean up persistent oil pollution hotspots

First planar annulene compounds with metal centres synthesised

Filter paper simplifies squaramide synthesis

UK funding agency to support controversial climate cooling research

AI predicts transition states with exceptional precision