Ethanol, a prevalent ingredient in hand sanitizers and disinfectants, has been deemed acceptable for use in these items by the European Chemicals Agency’s (Echa) biocidal products committee (BPC). However, the committee has not reached a conclusion regarding the classification of ethanol as a carcinogenic or reprotoxic substance. In March 2024, Greek authorities presented a report […]

At least 41 individuals have lost their lives and 38 others sustained injuries in two distinct industrial blast incidents in India. A large explosion devastated an industrial explosives factory owned by SBL Energy near Nagpur in Maharashtra state on 1 March, resulting in 19 fatalities and injuring 23 additional individuals, many in critical condition. The […]

Stable sandwich complexes have intrigued chemists for a long time due to their distinctive configuration in which a metal atom is wedged between two cyclopentadienyl (Cp) ligands. A remarkable breakthrough in this area has been achieved by researchers in the U.S., who have successfully produced a copper metallocene, thus completing the spectrum of metallocenes for […]

Analyst data suggests that although the low-emissions hydrogen sector planned to either commit to or initiate the construction of roughly a million tonnes of production capacity per year by 2025, over 4.9 million tonnes of scheduled capacity were canceled. Worldwide, the sector is reducing its scale as it encounters obstacles in securing customers willing to […]

**Ireland’s Ambitious Five-Year Strategy to Enhance Research and Innovation** Ireland has recently introduced an extensive five-year plan designed to strengthen its research and innovation framework, as it endeavors to reinforce its economy and society through knowledge-based advancement. The newly formed Research Ireland, created from the merger of Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council, […]

Approximately 83% of adults in the United States indicate a preference for improved initiatives by the government and industry to guarantee chemical safety, alongside a push for enhanced transparency regarding the chemicals currently in use. This information stems from a survey carried out by The Pew Charitable Trusts in association with Ipsos, a global market […]

Generations of biochemistry students have been taught that the Kreb’s cycle, or tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, serves a dual purpose: to produce energy for cells and to form the fundamental components for growth. However, researchers are uncovering that metabolic pathways – including well-established ones like the TCA cycle – can actually be assembled in diverse […]

**Moses Gomberg: Trailblazer of Radical Organic Chemistry** Moses Gomberg, celebrated as the ‘father of radical organic chemistry,’ may have unknowingly made a revolutionary discovery years ahead of his formal announcement of organic free radicals in 1900. Chemists revisiting and replicating Gomberg’s preliminary experiments suggest that his results might have offered convincing proof of trivalent carbon’s […]

**Comprehending Atoms: From Dalton to Quantum Mechanics** In the late 1800s, a pupil of the English chemist Henry Enfield Roscoe characterized atoms as “circular pieces of wood created by Mr. Dalton,” alluding to the illustrative models of John Dalton’s atomic theory. Dalton’s idea, demonstrated in his 1808 publication “A New System of Chemical Philosophy,” asserted […]