Balazs says that the result is “a material that can take in a chemical and turn it into mechanical work, like eating a ...

Microbiologists discover bacteria that eliminate toxic sulfide and use iron minerals to grow. An international group of ...

What if a soft material could move on its own, guided not by electronics or motors, but by the kind of rudimentary chemical ...

Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, ...

The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University is pioneering transformational discoveries in synthetic biology, biotechnology, catalysis, medicine, complex systems, ...

However, conventional chemical synthesis methods have many side reactions and high environmental burdens, and existing ...

Have you ever wondered how our brave soldiers deal with nasty stuff like chemical and biological weapons? Currently, it's a risky and time-consuming process. Soldiers have to suit up in cumbersome NBC ...

President Trump has inherited an evolving chemical and biological threat landscape, but not one he hasn’t encountered before. Trump struck Bashar al-Assad’s airbases in 2017 and 2018, after the Syrian ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been in touch with the Syrian government about both biological and chemical weapons whose use is illegal under international ...