More than 40% of chemistry papers retracted in the last two years were pulled because of plagiarism, according to a new study. The next most common reason fo...

Springer Nature, the world’s second biggest academic publisher, has published the first scholarly book authored entirely by machines. The book, which is free...

A chemistry student who allegedly poisoned his roommate with highly toxic thallium will face trial and has had his bail raised to $2.5 million, the Northampt...

A former chemistry PhD candidate at Queen’s University in Canada who confessed to poisoning a colleague has been sentenced to seven years in prison. The full...

Scholarly publishers Elsevier and the American Chemical Society have filed a lawsuit against ResearchGate, an academic social networking site, alleging that ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) and publishing giant Elsevier have filed a second lawsuit against ResearchGate, alleging mass copyright infringement. The...

Researchers are voicing concerns over a move that may affect many 3D visualisation programs that are commonly used in computational research. The full articl...

The studies chemistry researchers perceive to be the most important in their field are not always the ones that get cited the most, according to a new survey...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has won a lawsuit it filed in June against Sci-Hub, a website providing illicit free access to millions of paywalled scie...

Scholarly publishing giants Elsevier and the American Chemical Society (ACS) have filed a lawsuit in Germany against ResearchGate, a popular academic network...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has demanded $4.8 million (£3.7 million) in damages from Sci-Hub, a website that illegally provides access to millions of...

Journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) — which also publishes Chemistry World — have today retracted five papers due to a compromised peer review p...

More than 92% of chemistry journal papers – most of which are paywalled – are available for free from pirate site Sci-Hub, an analysis has revealed. The full...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has filed a lawsuit against a website that illegally bypasses paywalls to provide free access to millions of academic pap...

Not a week passes without reproducibility in science – or the lack of it – hitting the headlines. Although much of the criticism is directed at the biomedica...

Members of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (SBIC) are reacting with puzzlement and shock after learning that the results of a recent online lea...