Chemistry
Researchers move closer to detecting fractons in quantum spin liquids
Exotic Quantum Phase Could Turn Nearly Immobile Fractons Into a New Platform for Information Storage A new computational study has...
New study explains how RNA droplets may have helped start life
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Before the first cells enclosed chemistry inside membranes, life faced a basic logistical problem: molecules needed to...
New Study Charts a Path Toward Democratizing Molecular Innovation
A new perspective published in Science presents a modular strategy that could change how small molecules are designed, assembled, and...
Scientists uncover ways to curb gas formation in ether-electrolyte lithium metal batteries
Lithium-metal batteries have long promised a dramatic leap beyond today’s lithium-ion technology. By replacing the graphite anode with metallic lithium,...
Bowling-Pin-Shaped Nuclei Recreate Little Big Bang, Revealing the Universe’s Origins
Physicists have recreated a fleeting state of matter believed to have filled the Universe moments after the Big Bang—by colliding...
Randomized Trial Compares Lobectomy and Total Thyroidectomy for Indeterminate-Risk Thyroid Cancer
A Randomized Thyroid Surgery Trial Takes Aim at the Patient Choice That Could Shape Future Cancer Care For patients diagnosed...
KICT Reinterprets a Century-Old Physics Concept
Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) researchers have introduced a new cubic equation of state that could...
Jet engines can’t tell coconut-blend fuel from jet fuel—but the environment can
Air travel’s climate footprint has made sustainable aviation fuel one of the most urgent engineering challenges in modern transportation. Researchers...
Scientists Create Twisted, Two-Faced Polymer with Unique Properties
A new class of organic semiconducting polymers could give electronics a powerful new way to control electron spin—without relying on...
Scientists Move Closer to Controlling Individual Electrons
German researchers have developed a highly stable laser system that could bring scientists closer to controlling individual electrons with precisely...
New molecular building block combines proteins with diverse molecules
Proteins are nature’s master builders. Folded into intricate three-dimensional shapes, they can recognize one another, assemble into molecular machines, and...
Holographic printer creates 3D shapes, including voids, in one shot
Researchers at the University of Utah and The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a new form of 3D...
SETI Institute Team Develops New Method to Locate Space Resources
August 19, 2026 — A small spacecraft could one day sweep past the Moon, a near-Earth asteroid, and Mars’s moon...
New Insights Reveal How the Atlantic Circulation Changes and Moves
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has long been described as one of Earth’s great climate engines: a vast...
Organobismuth Transporter Enables Regioselective α-Arylation of Diverse Carbonyl Compounds
A new strategy for building carbon–carbon bonds could give synthetic chemists a more precise way to modify one of the...
Quantum Simulators Gain Reliable Error Estimates
Quantum simulators have long promised to reveal how complex quantum matter behaves—systems so difficult to calculate that even the most...
Dynamic duo weaves hierarchical DNA materials using two classes of biomolecular nanomachines
Researchers in Japan have developed a molecular construction system that uses two chemically powered biomolecular machines to build interconnected DNA...
Generating and transferring nitrenes enables unnatural biosynthesis in living cells
Nitrenes are among chemistry’s most useful and most difficult-to-control intermediates. These nitrogen-centred species can insert into carbon–hydrogen bonds, add across...
KAIST Transforms Troublesome Protons into Battery Energy-Storage Resources
A battery reaction long treated as a destructive side effect may become one of the keys to building safer, faster,...
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Tuning Endergonic Triplet Photosensitization Enables Bicyclo[1.1.0]butane–Alkene Cycloadditions
A new copper-based photocatalytic strategy could make it significantly easier to build complex, three-dimensional molecules that mimic the shape of...