Groundbreaking New Compound Could Treat the World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease

The world’s deadliest infectious disease urgently requires new and effective antibiotics. Researchers have created a promising new compound that may mark a major step forward in the global effort to ...
Medical Xpress

Nearly 70% of US adults meet new definition of obesity, study finds

The prevalence of obesity in the United States could rise sharply under a definition of obesity released earlier this year by the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology Commission. Additionally, the ...
The Hill

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their development of new molecular structures that can trap vast quantities of gas inside, laying the groundwork to ...
The Conversation

Nobel chemistry prize awarded for crystal materials that could revolutionise green technology

John Griffin receives funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Faraday Institution, and has previously received funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Three ...
OPB

Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize

STOCKHOLM — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for their development of metal–organic frameworks that could eventually help reduce pollution and combat climate change. A ...
The New York Times

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Architects of Metal-Organic Frameworks

The prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of an architecture that some chemists compare with a molecular sponge. By Alexa Robles-Gil and Ali Watkins ...
Scientific American

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy and Clean Up the Environment

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for a versatile technology that can be used for an astonishing variety of purposes, from environmental remediation to drug delivery and energy ...
C&EN

ACS president comments on award of 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8, 2025 — On behalf of the American Chemical Society (ACS), President Dorothy J. Phillips congratulates today’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Susumu Kitagawa of Kyoto ...
University of California

UC Berkeley’s Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry

Omar Yaghi, a Jordanian-American chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry today, sharing it with Richard Robson of the University of Melbourne, ...
Live Science

'Harry Potter' materials land three scientists Nobel Prize in chemistry

The frameworks included new materials that store large amounts of gas in a tiny volume, "almost like Hermione's handbag in Harry Potter," Heiner Linke, chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry, said ...
The New York Times

Darleane Hoffman, Innovator in Nuclear Chemistry, Dies at 98

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the understanding of nuclear fission. By Delthia Ricks Darleane C. Hoffman, a ...