Chemistry
Walking Robot Skin Turns Metal Surfaces Into a Power Source, No Battery Required
One of the most stubborn obstacles in robotics is not intelligence, locomotion, or control, but something far more mundane: the...
DNA-Inspired Nanocatalyst Turns Green Chemistry Into a Magnetic Marvel
Chemists have long chased a deceptively simple goal: building complex drug-like molecules quickly, cheaply, and without poisoning the planet in...
Zap Test: Electrical Impedance Spots Fake Honey at Just 3.3% Syrup
Honey is one of the most adulterated foods on the planet, and the fraudsters are getting better at hiding their...
Iron Atoms in Porous Carbon Push Lithium-Ion Battery Anodes to New Heights
A team of researchers at Linyi University in China has unveiled a remarkably simple recipe for one of the most...
Goat Milk Peptides Show Promise Against Diabetes and Gout Enzymes
Goat milk, long prized for its digestibility and gentle nutritional profile, may soon have a new claim to fame. A...
Rubber That Creeps Under Pressure: Scientists Decode the Ratcheting Secrets of Nitrile Rubber
Nitrile rubber is one of the most quietly essential materials in modern engineering. It seals fuel systems, cushions vibrating machinery,...
Drug-Resistant E. coli Found in Sachet Drinking Water Sold in Nigerian Communities
Sachet water, the small plastic packets of drinking water sold by street vendors across Nigeria and often called “pure water,”...
Sugar-Derived Epoxy Resin Matches Petroleum Classic While Cutting Fossil Dependence
Epoxy resins are everywhere, quietly holding together the modern world. They bond the wings of aircraft, coat the hulls of...
Palladium Chemistry Turns Iodoalkenes Into Enynes and Alkynyl Ketones
Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions have reshaped modern synthetic chemistry, giving chemists reliable ways to forge carbon-carbon bonds that were once notoriously...
Hidden pH Swings at Electrodes Turn Electricity and Oxygen into Plastic Feedstocks
Chemists have long assumed that if they get the voltage right, choose the right electrode material, and tune the composition...
Scientists Find the Perfect Way to Brew a Rare Chinese Bud Tea
A tea made from the tender spring buds of a tree that grows almost nowhere else on Earth has finally...
Sunlight-Powered Catalyst Turns Trash Bin Lids Into Odor-Destroying Air Purifiers
Anyone who has wheeled a garbage bin to the curb on a hot summer morning knows the problem well. Within...
Zinc-Polyamide Complex and Phosphorus-Modified Magnesium Hydroxide Make Plasticized PVC Both Heat-Resistant and Self-Extinguishing
Polyvinyl chloride is one of the most widely produced plastics on Earth, ranking third among all polymers by global consumption,...
Injectable Gel Turns Old Blood Pressure Drug Into Breast Cancer Ally Against Doxorubicin Resistance
Breast cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed malignancy among women worldwide and a leading cause of cancer-related death, with more...
Single Metal Atom Oxides Emerge as Powerhouse Photocatalysts for Clean Water and Hydrogen Fuel
Imagine a catalyst so small that its active ingredient is a single atom, isolated and anchored to a surface like...
Perovskite-Filled Plastic Films Turn Insulators Into Tunable Flexible Electronics
Flexible electronics have long promised devices that bend, stretch, and conform to the human body, from wearable health monitors to...
Desalination Brine: The Salty Waste Stream Becoming a Mine for Lithium, Magnesium and Clean Energy
Every liter of freshwater produced by a desalination plant leaves behind roughly 1.5 to 2.0 liters of brine, a hypersaline...
Electrifying the Septic Tank: How Electrochemistry Could Transform Off-Grid Wastewater Treatment
For billions of people living beyond the reach of centralized sewer networks, decentralized wastewater treatment systems—septic tanks, anaerobic baffled reactors,...
Lichens Emerge as Chemical Goldmines for Drugs, Cosmetics and Farming
Lichens, those crusty, leafy and shrubby organisms that cling to rocks, tree bark and soil across the planet, have long...
Tiny Zinc Oxide Dots on a Borneol Polymer Wipe Out Bacteria as Well as Antibiotics
A team of chemists at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in Hangzhou has combined two unlikely partners—a camphor-scented molecule borrowed from traditional...
