Scientists with young children, female researchers, and "bench scientists" report the largest declines in research time

The Pandemic Does Not Affect All Researchers Equally

Long-Life Rechargeable Batteries Operating at –75 °C
Electrode materials with pseudocapacitive behavior for energy storage under extreme conditions

Pfizer and BioNTech Agree Vaccine Supply with the UK
30 million doses of mRNA-based vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 expected to be delivered in 2020/2021, subject to regulatory approval or authorization

Does Water Have a Second Critical Point?
Computations give evidence for a metastable liquid-liquid critical point at supercooled conditions

Farmers Rewarded for Adopting Climate-smart Practices
New initiative launched by Bayer

Enantioselective 3-Fluorochromane Synthesis
Direct fluorocyclization of allyl phenyl ethers with iodine(I)/iodine(III) catalysis

Energy-Efficient Membrane Process for Oil Refining
Polymer membranes can separate complex hydrocarbon mixtures

Practical Synthetic Method for 2-Oxazolidinones
Triethylamine hydroiodide as a bifunctional catalyst for solvent-free synthesis

Radical Dimers with Solvent-Responsive Behavior
Aryl dicyanomethyl radical switches between σ-dimer and π-dimer

All-Polymer Solar Cells
Random ternary copolymerization as a synthetic strategy for the acceptor in polymer solar cells