Overcoming food addiction
The accessibility of all manner of tempting foods has resulted in most of us being overweight or even obese by the time we reach middle age. Known as middle-age spread, the problem has become so pervasive that it is often regarded as normal nowadays.
Leader: Mapping a route to the future of chemistry
The chemicals industry is in the middle of a once-in-a-generation realignment. That realignment is creating challenges for many, but will also be the source of unexpected innovation. Three recent reports together map out the challenges, the impact – and the future opportunity.
Superconductivity: Researchers break 30-year old temperature record
US researchers have broken a thirty-year superconductivity record, creating a material that allows electricity to flow without resistance at the highest temperature ever achieved under normal pressure. The advance could eventually help create more efficient electrical grids, improved energy storage systems, faster electronics and new technologies for fusion energy and medical imaging.
Cell therapies: The future outlook
For years, the buzz surrounding cell therapies was one of investment and optimism - fuelled by scientific advances providing potential solutions for previously intractable diseases. Recently, the environment for advanced therapies has become more challenging.
EU briefs - news from the chemistry industry in Europe
Read the news in brief from the EU from C&I Magazine Issue 7 2026.
AMR: Climate change and the threat of antimicrobial resistance
Climate change is fuelling a rise in antibiotic-resistant Salmonella, a new global study reports. It found that climate change was associated with a 10% global increase in Salmonella antibiotic resistance genes between 1940 and 2023.
Business digest: Chemistry industry updates
The latest business digest for C&I Issue 7 2026 with all the latest mergers and acquisitions in the chemical industry.
Project to decode human ageing reaches major milestone
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet) has published its first wave of discoveries, highlighted by a cover commentary in the journal Cell led by Rong Fan, Harold Hodgkinson professor of biomedical engineering at Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science and of pathology at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), US, alongside researchers from nine other institutions.
Metamaterials boost heat transfer
Heat can be manipulated by using carefully engineered materials, according to US researchers. Impressive near-field radiative heat transfer was achieved between gold split-ring resonators patterned on silicon nitride membranes.
Applied chemistry highlights: Programmable biocatalysis, upcycling brewing residues for sunscreens and more
Nigel P. Freestone from the University of Northampton discusses selected research papers from recent journal issues for Issue 7 2026 of C&I magazine.