Chemistry
Atmosphere’s Cleansing Agent Under the Microscope: New Model Study Reshapes Methane Lifetime Estimates
A new global modelling study quantifies how water vapour UV absorption, heterogeneous chemistry, reaction kinetics and ocean emissions shape tropospheric...
Graphene Contact Lenses Promise Smart Vision, Sensing, and Drug Delivery on the Eye
A new review maps how atom-thin graphene could turn contact lenses into transparent sensors, drug delivery platforms, and antimicrobial shields,...
High-speed sample shuttle brings low magnetic fields to high-resolution NMR
A new hybrid pneumatic–mechanical sample shuttle moves NMR tubes between high and low magnetic fields at up to 27 meters...
Dual-Mechanism Ru–Co Catalyst Smashes Barriers in Acidic Water Splitting
An interpenetrated RuO2/Co3O4 heterostructure couples two oxygen evolution mechanisms through short interfacial Ru–O–Co bridges, delivering record activity and long-term stability...
Seven New Minerals Join the Official Record as Mineralogy’s Naming Authority Cleans House
The IMA-CNMNC's Newsletter 91 approves seven new mineral species, including one from a lunar meteorite and one found inside a...
Mountains Turn Typhoons Into Elevators, Pumping Surface Air to the Edge of Space
A high-resolution simulation of Typhoon Molave's 2020 landfall in the Philippines shows that mountains beneath a typhoon create gravity waves...
One Flight, One Tonne: Scientists Audit the Carbon Cost of Conference Travel
A detailed audit of ten magnetic resonance conferences finds that a single trip can emit up to five tonnes of...
Simple Plasma Test Tracks Antibiotic Prodrug and Its Active Form in One Run
Researchers in India have validated a cost-effective HPLC method that separates both epimers of the antibiotic prodrug cefpodoxime proxetil in...
Surface Chemistry Trick Steers Anions to Stabilize Sodium-Ion Battery Anodes
Researchers in Hefei have engineered pyridinic nitrogen and carbonyl sites on hard carbon anodes to direct anion transport, forming a...
How You Load Your Modern Wood Stove Could Undo Its Clean-Air Promise
A new laboratory study shows that common user behaviours such as hot-reloading, overloading, and opening the door of a modern...
Rare New Neodymium Mineral Unearthed at Canada’s Legendary Mont Saint-Hilaire
A new neodymium-dominant carbonate mineral, piilonenite-(Nd), has been described from Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, revealing a unique crystal structure and rare...
Satellite Records of Tropical Ozone Disagree Too Much to Predict Future Recovery, Study Finds
A major new analysis shows that satellite records of tropical ozone change disagree so widely that they cannot yet be...
Fluorine Probes Reveal Hidden Side-Chain Rotamers in a Model Protein
By swapping every valine in the protein GB1 for fluorinated analogues, researchers used fluorine-19 NMR, three-bond coupling constants and gamma...
Molecular Dynamics Meets Flame Simulation to Predict Soot Growth Faster and More Accurately
Researchers at the University of Melbourne have coupled molecular dynamics-derived soot rates with computational fluid dynamics to predict soot growth...
Handheld probe, full picture: dual-feature SLAM builds panoramic 3D vascular maps
A Chinese research team has developed PAATAM, a dual-feature photoacoustic SLAM strategy that fuses vascular geometry and signal-intensity texture to...
Bat Guano Minerals Reveal a Surprisingly Easy Way to Lose Their Water
A multi-analytical study shows that guano-derived taranakite transforms into the rare cave mineral francoanellite at low activation energy, driven by...
New Satellite Eye on Smog: TEMPO Tracks Ozone Pollution Over New York’s Coastal Waters
During the 2023 STAQS campaign, NASA's TEMPO satellite, aircraft, and lidar observations revealed how sea breezes, residual pollution layers, and...
Dissolvable Gum Film Delivers Next-Generation Antibiotic Straight Into Periodontal Pockets
Researchers have engineered a dissolvable pullulan and polyvinyl alcohol film loaded with the PFOR-inhibiting antimicrobial amixicile that releases over 95...
Fluorine Spin States That Outlast Relaxation Open New Window on Drug Binding
Researchers have created long-lived fluorine-19 spin states in fluorinated chains that outlast ordinary relaxation and change measurably when the molecules...
Electric Sparks in Flames Can Switch Nanoparticle Growth On or Off
A new study shows that a corona discharge in a flame can either promote or suppress the formation of titanium-...
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