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
Chemical & Engineering News: Lights, camera, reaction!
Although some kinks are still being worked out, the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser facility is now giving researchers an unprecedented view of the inner workings of molecules and materials.
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ACS Central Science: A Conversation with Ting Zhu
This chemical biologist is building the mirror image of nature’s molecular machinery.
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Nature: The Flint water crisis: how citizen scientists exposed poisonous politics
A review of two books on broken pipes and promises in Michigan.
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Chemistry World: Shaking up the knowledge economy
UK Research and Innovation is poised to reshape the research funding landscape.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Perovskite progress pushes tandem solar cells closer to market
Rapid improvements in the stability and efficiency of perovskite-silicon tandem cells are raising commercial hopes.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Ancient organic molecules found on Mars
Curiosity rover also reports data on the red planet’s mysterious methane plumes.
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Chemistry World: Escaping the postdoc trap
Low pay and gloomy career prospects are thwarting the next generation of researchers.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Rise in CFC emissions threatens ozone recovery
Rogue trichlorofluoromethane likely originates from production facilities in East Asia.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Periwinkle gives up its cancer-busting secrets
Key enzymes in complex biosynthesis could enable alkaloid production.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Bone nanostructure revealed by electron microscopy
Crystalline needles of bone mineral form helical patterns around collagen fibrils.
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