Highlights
Nature Index: How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy
20 March 2025Major investments to fuel AI’s power demands are not the only way big tech is having an influence.
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.
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Category Archives: Highlights
Chemistry World: Two for the price of one
This year’s Nobel prizes show that chemistry truly is the central science.
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Chemistry World: Good advice
Rather than axing his chief scientific adviser, the next president of the European commission should enhance the role.
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Spectrum: Cheap Solar Cells Offer Hydrogen Hope
Perovskite photovoltaics pack enough punch to split water.
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Chemistry World: Faster, cheaper, better
Microfluidics researchers are aiming to bring new diagnostic devices into mainstream medicine.
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Chemical and Engineering News: Researchers Develop Combinatorial Chemistry For Molecular Electronics
New strategy offers rapid route to making novel macromolecules on surfaces that could be used as wires or transistors in devices.
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Nature: Liquid-metal batteries get boost from molten lead
Technology could provide large-scale storage for energy from erratic sources such as wind or solar.
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Chemistry World: The trouble with boycotts
Cutting academic ties with a censured state can do more harm than good.
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Nature: Social sciences suffer from severe publication bias
Survey finds that ‘null results’ rarely see the light of the day.
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Nature: The robo-chemist
The race is on to build a machine that can synthesize any organic compound. It could transform chemistry.
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Chemistry World: The creative stimulus
Innovative thinking may be difficult to turn on at will, but there are many ways to prepare for inspiration.
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