Chemistry

November 3, 2025

Climate policies, transition risk, and financial stability

Credit: Adam Islaam | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) The way in which banks react to climate risks...

Some RNA molecules have unexpected sugar coating

Credit: Emily M. Eng/R. Flynn et al./Cell 2021 In a surprise find, scientists have discovered sugar-coated RNA molecules decorating the...

Shortcut for dendritic cells

Credit: Source: Arasa et al. Journal of Experimental Medicine 2021, modified In its response to pathogens and vaccines, our immune...

A connection between senescence and stem cells caused by a breast cancer-initiating protein

High levels of RANK protein trigger senescence, which plays a protective role in the early stages of tumours and delays...

New study finds combination of Omega-3s in popular supplements may blunt heart benefits

Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Doctors often recommend Omega-3s to help patients lower their cholesterol and improve heart health. Those Omega-3s can...

Lehigh chemist Xiaoji Xu selected as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

Xu is one of only sixteen selected this year for this highly competitive grant from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus...

Scientists explore Tesla roads not taken — and find new potential present-day utility

Study tests viability of 100-year old patented device by inventorCredit: NYU's Applied Mathematics Laboratory A valve invented by engineer Nikola...

Etching process enhances the extraction of hydrogen during water electrolysis

Credit: The authors Extracting hydrogen from water through electrolysis offers a promising route for increasing the production of hydrogen, a...

New research shows: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek led rivals astray

Credit: Rijksmuseum Boerhaave/TU Delft A microscope used by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek to conduct pioneering research contains a surprisingly ordinary lens,...

MIT unveils a new action plan to tackle the climate crisis

The Institute commits to net-zero emissions by 2026, charts course marshaling all of MIT's capabilities toward decarbonizationCredit: Image: Christopher Harting...

Is the past (and future) there when nobody looks?

Credit: © Aloop, IQOQI-Wien, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften In 1961, the Nobel prize winning theoretical physicist Eugene Wigner proposed what...

Earth’s oldest minerals date onset of plate tectonics to 3.6 billion years ago

Ancient zircons from the jack hills of western Australia hone date of an event that was crucial to making the...

Using micro-sized cut metal wires, Japanese team forges path to new uses for terahertz waves

Credit: Takehito Suzuki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology Japanese researchers successfully tested reflectionless, highly refractive index metasurface that may...

Nanophotonics enhanced coverslip for phase imaging in biology

Credit: by Lukas Wesemann, Jon Rickett, Jingchao Song, Jieqiong Lou, Elizabeth Hinde, Timothy J. Davis, and Ann Roberts The ability...

Charting the expansion history of the universe with supernovae

Credit: NAOJ An international research team analyzed a database of more than 1000 supernova explosions and found that models for...

Where on Earth is all the water?

Hanging by a thread: Imaging and probing chains of single atoms

Scientists develop a method to visualize monoatomic chains and measure the strength and conductance of single-atom bondsCredit: Yoshifumi Oshima Ishikawa,...

NUS and Shell join hands to advance decarbonisation solutions

New S$4.6 million research programme aims to sustainably convert carbon dioxide into cleaner fuels and useful chemicalsCredit: National University of...

Above the noise

Researchers at Osaka University use deep learning to reduce noise in the electrical current data collected from nanopores, which may...

Force-sensing PIEZO proteins are at work in plants, too