The first student to defend a doctoral thesis in the University of Massachusetts at Lowell's green chemistry program did so in mid-January. The first student to defend a doctoral thesis in the ...

Chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By using robotics to prepare thousands of samples and ...

Computer-aided synthesis planning (CASP) programs aim to replicate what synthetic chemists do when tackling a synthesis: start with a target molecule and then work backwards to trace a synthetic route ...

Many people are expressing fears that artificial intelligence (AI) has gone too far — or risks doing so. Take Geoffrey Hinton, a prominent figure in AI, who recently resigned from his position at ...