ACS has named the inaugural recipients of ACS Laureate and ACS Rising Leader, two new honors recognizing the professional ...

New program provides bridge funding and cohort-based professional development to exceptional early-career scientists facing career transition challenges.

Water running off busy roads in California carries the pollutant 6PPD-quinone at levels that could harm two endangered fish species.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 7, 2026 — On behalf of the American Chemical Society (ACS), President Rigoberto Hernandez congratulates today’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Henri B. Kagan of Université ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 27, 2026 — What does a clean room smell like? Many people say citrus, pine, or flowers because these fragrances are common in cleaning products. A research team led by Brandon Boor found ...

Scientists at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are developing a new approach to sustainable food production by using microbes to transform plastic-derived compounds into protein-rich ...

CHICAGO, Aug. 24, 2026 — Plastic might be the last ingredient you would ever add to a cookie recipe. But a team of researchers is looking to change that. They’ve programmed yeasts to turn plastic and ...

The fellows program began in 2009 to recognize and honor ACS members for outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and ACS. Nominations for the 2027 class of ACS ...

Contact lenses are a great vision correction option for many, but if one of them gets damaged, there is little to do other than throw it away. A team reporting in ACS Applied Polymer Materials has a ...

Once cotton gets wet, it pulls heat from your body. This is helpful when you’re exercising or outside on a hot day but dangerous in the bitter cold. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters ...

This work defines an electrified path for cement production that could reduce the industry’s massive carbon footprint by as much as 98% when using waste cement as a feedstock.” — Curtis Berlinguette ...