Highlights
Engineering: Electric Vehicle Market Slowly Edges Toward Solid-State Batteries
03 March 2025Companies are gradually overcoming technical challenges with batteries that offer longer driving range and safer operation.
C&EN: ‘Berkelocene’ puts exotic berkelium in a sandwich
28 February 2025Researchers find bonding surprises at the extreme end of organometallic chemistry.
Nature: Can this revolutionary plastics-recycling plant help solve the pollution crisis?
04 February 2025A world-first facility has a new way to break down ‘unrecyclable’ plastic waste.
C&EN: Slow proteins may contribute to many chronic diseases
04 December 2024Reactive oxygen species in cells cause proteins to link up through disulfide bonds, reducing their mobility.
Engineering: Hydrogen Hubs Arise in the United States
26 November 2024Public funding brings producers and users of clean hydrogen together to boost adoption of the gas.
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Category Archives: Highlights
C&EN: Cheaper cryo-EM on the horizon
Thermo Fisher hopes $1 million microscope could broaden access to microscopy method used to determine protein structures.
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C&EN: Oxidant may offer a boost to greener rockets
An alternative to polluting ammonium perchlorate shows promise as a propellant ingredient.
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C&EN: How one university built a COVID-19 screening system
Campus testing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holds important lessons about the strengths and limitations of routine testing regimen.
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C&EN: Click chemistry sees first use in humans
Targeting mechanism could help to avoid side effects of powerful anticancer drug.
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C&EN: Database brings clarity to chemical weapons lists
Molecular structures and other identifiers will help to compare and contrast chemical warfare agents controlled by three different international frameworks.
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C&EN: DMSO poses decomposition danger
Acids produced by heating dimethyl sulfoxide can trigger a runaway reaction.
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C&EN: COVID-19 antigen assay set to triple US testing capacity
Abbott aims to produce 50 million of the 15-minute, $5 tests per month.
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Nature: Can the history of pollution shape a better future?
The poisonous legacy of industry holds lessons, two books show.
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C&EN: Saliva tests show promise for COVID-19 surveillance at universities and workplaces
Protocols developed at University of Illinois and Yale School of Public Health join growing list of spit-and-test diagnostics.
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C&EN: Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reaches Resolution Milestone
Detailed protein structures are fuelingdrug-discovery efforts.
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