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A Royal Society of Chemistry Horizon Prize film celebrates pioneering work on microbial sulfur recycling by researchers in the department and international collaborators. Discover how microbes power ecosystems and climate via organosulfur metabolism.

The discovery of fundamental rules allows the efficient and selective separation of polymer mixtures by chemical recycling into pure monomers.

The results of the 2025 National Student Survey have revealed the strengths of the Department of Chemistry which has excelled in ‘Assessment and Feedback’, ‘Academic Support’ and ‘Learning Resources’.

Scientists have shed new light on the rhino family tree after recovering a protein sequence from a fossilised tooth from more than 20 million years ago.

Chemists at the University of York are partners on a new Innovate UK Smart Grant funded project with Eutechtics, a pioneering startup company developing low-carbon routes to essential industrial chemicals.

A major government annual review has featured research by a Professor from our Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence.

Harmful air pollutants on UK pavements generated by diesel cars could be slashed by a third if car exhausts were positioned on the right, according to a new study.

Dr Sarah Moller and Professor Ally Lewis contributed their ideas on how to create air pollution policy fit for the future to a recently published report from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP).