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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Chemical & Engineering News: Enzyme discovery causes a stink
Indolacetate decarboxylase produces skatole, responsible for the smell of manure—and perhaps halitosis.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Fluorinated coating is utterly repellent
Transparent, self-healing film fends off more than 100 liquids, including concentrated acids and low-surface-tension solvents.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Silver tarnishing inspires semiconductor synthesis
Simple method imitates metal corrosion to form sheets of silver atoms protected by organic ligands.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Synthetic biology cracks blue rose case
Indigoidine pigment gives the flower an unnatural hue.
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Chemistry World: Diverse interests
Grassroots initiatives and larger projects are both vital weapons in the battle for equality.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Chemists tie most complex molecular knot to date
With help from ring-closing metathesis, researchers tangle ligands into 324-atom loop.
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Chemistry World: Time to rewrite the textbooks
How science corrects is an important lesson in the classroom.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Egyptian mummy gives up embalming secrets
Groundbreaking tests on 5,500-year-old body reveal prehistoric practices and evidence of ancient trade.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Mass spectrometry spots forged poems
Nondestructive method authenticates works of Robert Burns, one of Scotland’s most famous writers.
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Chemistry World: The China CFC dilemma
New production breaking the Montreal Protocol demands a concerted response.
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