“What is happening with chemistry in America?” queries Matthew D. Hall, a biology group leader at the US National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) in a Twitter post July 8. “We’re ...

A medicinal or pharmaceutical chemist researches and creates chemical compounds for use as drugs. By applying chemical research techniques to isolate natural healing agents or develop artificial ones, ...

The economic recession of 2008 hit many areas of the chemical sector hard, spurring widespread layoffs and leaving behind a lackluster job market for chemists in the years since. But the field of ...

Often called the “central science,” chemistry is of vital importance to the life sciences, medicine, engineering, astronomy and many science-related fields requiring problem-solving skills. Thus, ...