Univar creates dedicated EMEA Energy team

BASF Group releases preliminary figures for second quarter of 2025 and adjusts outlook for full-year 2025

Breakthrough in lithium refining from lithium chloride

Strengthening the European battery industry: Nobian joins forces with Veolia to advance lithium production for batteries

CYNiO secures over 2 million euros for the next innovation step in the specialty chemicals industry

bmp and TGFS invest in chemical start-up

Start-up Oxyle announces new solution for particularly stubborn PFAS

Modular systems against the most resistant perpetual chemicals

Bodo Möller Chemie consolidates market presence in Spain with Quitec takeover

Strategic course for growth in surface treatment

analytica USA: Expert knowledge for research and practice

Special show Digital Transformation: a hands-on Smart Lab

HORIBA opens new Analytical Solution Plaza to support UK science and research

CustomCells secures its future with new investors

New investors secure development and production of state-of-the-art battery cells at the technology cluster in Itzehoe

Finalists Announced for the ISC3 Innovation Challenge 2025 on “Sustainable Chemistry & Climate Change”

Ready, set, here are the Changemakers!

Largest carbon removal investment round globally year to date

Climeworks raises USD 162M to scale up technology

Edible algae-based cups, designed to reduce plastic waste at sporting events

JUGEND GRÜNDET National Finals 2025: ALTANA Special Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Student Duo from Heilbronn

ETH spin-offs sweep the board at Venture Awards

Brenntag Essentials acquires Gefahrstoffzentrum (GSZ) Kaiserslautern

Brenntag Essentials significantly enhancing its mixing and blending capabilities in Germany

Saint-Gobain acquires Maturix

thyssenkrupp nucera Signs an Agreement to Acquire Key Technology Assets from Green Hydrogen Systems

LUMITOS Celebrates Anniversary – From University Vision to Leading B2B Online Marketing Expert

Organic Growth Instead of Venture Capital: How LUMITOS Survived the Dot-com Crisis and Became Market Leader

On stream: BASF starts up new world-scale plant for hexamethylenediamine in Chalampé, France

“This investment underlines BASF’s strong commitment to chemical production in Europe...”

All good things come in threes: Dyphox is back

Start-up wants to build the world's first stellarator-based fusion power plant in the 2030s

Proxima Fusion raises €130M Series A: “Fusion energy is entering a new era—moving from lab-based science to industrial-scale engineering”

BASF starts commercial operation of Black Mass plant for Battery Recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany

Chemists produce hexa-nitrogen for the first time - the most energy-rich substance ever formed

"...a huge advance in nitrogen chemistry": future application as environmentally friendly energy storage conceivable

PFAS: A novel path to breaking down “forever chemicals”

A new catalyst capable of cleaving strong carbon-fluorine bonds has been developed – potential use in pharmaceutical production

Microbes transform plastic waste into paracetamol

How traditional chemistry can work with engineering biology to create sustainable chemical-producing living microbial factories

Small but Mighty: Miniaturized Hydrogen Production

“We asked the biologically somewhat crazy question of whether we can’t just find a shortcut and let ferredoxin produce hydrogen”

How urea forms spontaneously

New reaction discovered: Potential for sustainable and low-energy urea synthesis

Sevenfold boost in lifespan of anode-free all-solid-state batteries using MoS₂ thin films

Employing cost-effective MoS₂ thin films in place of expensive noble metals resolves issues of non-uniform lithium plating and interfacial instability in anode-free all-solid-state batteries

Start-up wants to build the world's first stellarator-based fusion power plant in the 2030s

Proxima Fusion raises €130M Series A: “Fusion energy is entering a new era—moving from lab-based science to industrial-scale engineering”

Renewable gas from hydrogen and CO₂

New sorption-enhanced methanation plant at Empa

thyssenkrupp nucera Signs an Agreement to Acquire Key Technology Assets from Green Hydrogen Systems

Magnetic cooling – using a frustrated desert mineral

Research team identifies atacamite as a magnetocaloric material

Saint-Gobain acquires Maturix

Multi-million investment to drive the de-fossilization of the chemical industry

Verbio flagship project in bio-based chemicals: groundbreaking for catalyst production in Hungary

Hold the cream and sugar: black coffee linked to lower risk of death

Benefits diminished with additives

Unilever reaches new business arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel

Unilever announced it has reached a new arrangement for Ben & Jerry’s in Israel which will ensure the ice cream stays available to all consumers

Ear wax as a possible screening medium for Parkinson’s disease

How fructose increases the risk of inflammation

Even short-term high fructose consumption influences the immune system

Sweet and climate-friendly: Kaufland's first own-brand products with a cocoa-free chocolate alternative

analytica expands its international network to the USA

US laboratory market with top growth forecasts

Microbes transform plastic waste into paracetamol

How traditional chemistry can work with engineering biology to create sustainable chemical-producing living microbial factories

Pineapple juice is scarce and expensive due to a small harvest

Tumor diagnostics: AI model detects more than 170 types of cancer

Looking into the genome instead of into the tissue

Amphibian skin mucus as a potential weapon against multi-resistant bacteria and cancer

Researchers find antimicrobial peptides on axolotl skin that not only fight dangerous hospital germs but also tumour cells as an effective antibiotic alternative

Compostable Single-Use Tableware

Mechanically stable, water-resistant polymer films thanks to bio-based coatings

Unmasking hazardous compounds in cosmetics, skincare products and perfumes

New analytical methodology: Significant detection of hazardous compounds and their effects on cells

Frequent nightmares triple risk of early death and accelerate ageing

"Our sleeping brains cannot distinguish dreams from reality"

Screw cap increasingly accepted for wine

A few years ago, this was unthinkable, as a recent study now shows

How chemical bonds are formed: Observing energy flow in real time

Femtosecond spectroscopy makes chemical processes visible

Colorectal cancer screening via smartphone?

App-based early detection is as accurate as laboratory tests and could motivate more people to undergo screening

MrBeast chocolate comes to Germany

Exclusively at EDEKA, Netto Marken-Discount and Marktkauf

New Microscopy tool for energy research

Technique allows scientists to explore the properties of photoelectrodes more precisely

Short naps increase the likelihood of flashes of inspiration

Study on the effect of power naps

Vion: 2024 Strategy Execution Drives Strong Results in 2025

A map for single-atom catalysts

The precise knowledge of the atomic environments can help produce single-atom catalysts that are more uniform, and thus more effective

Researchers discover how caffeine could slow cellular ageing

Coffee might do more than just wake you up

Antitrust proceedings against Delivery Hero and Glovo: EU Commission imposes heavy fines

Berlin-based blood analysis innovator aescolab secures new capital

Start-up uses AI for personalized health analyses

Virtually indefinitely durable: the world's only heart valve prosthesis made from the body's own tissue implanted for the first time

Technology was transferred to the Berlin start-up GrOwnValve

Ready for summer with the PINK LEMONADE from waterdrop®

Pushing the resolution limits of scattering near-field optical microscopy

A valuable tool for characterizing surfaces with atomic-scale precision

Pharaoh's Curse fungus transformed to fight leukemia

Researchers turn toxic fungus into anti-cancer drug

Replacing animal products with plant-based foods leads to weight loss in people with type 1 diabetes

New Test Improves Quality Control of Allergy Therapeutics

This type of test has never been available before due to the complex structure of these medicines