Chemistry

April 11, 2026

Newly discovered biosynthetic pathway in bacteria recipe for drug discovery and production

Credit: Chi P. Ting Microbes are master chefs of the biomolecular world; collectively, they harbor the ability to produce a...

An air-stable and waterproof lithium metal anode

Credit: ©Science China Press Lithium metal anode is promising to upgrade the energy density of lithium ion batteries for its...

Heat flow through single molecules detected

Credit: OIST After several years of theorizing and experimenting, an international team of researchers including scientists at Okinawa Institute of...

Heat transport through single molecules

Credit: Jan C. Kloeckner Combining novel theoretical and experimental approaches, researchers from the University of Michigan (USA), Kookmin University (South...

Simulation explores how insects glean compass direction from skylight

Neural mechanisms could inspire designs for new skylight-based navigation tools for robotsCredit: Christian Lischka, unsplash. A computational simulation suggests that...

New low-cost thermoelectric material works at room temperature

Material could be used to cool electronic devices, overheated vehiclesCredit: University of Houston Has your steering wheel been too hot...

New laws of attraction: Scientists print magnetic liquid droplets

Amazing magnetic, liquid material could lead to 3D-printable magnetic liquid devices for the fabrication of flexible electronics, or artificial cells...

Cleaning our water with groundbreaking ‘bioinspired’ chemistry

Credit: Carnegie Mellon University The 20th and 21st centuries have seen an explosion in the use of synthetic chemicals worldwide,...

‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions

The molten rock that feeds volcanoes can be stored in the Earth's crust for as long as a thousand years,...

Metal oxide-infused membranes could offer low-energy alternative for chemical separations

Credit: Fengyi Zhang Chemical manufacturers consume a massive amount of energy each year separating and refining feedstocks to make a...

NASA’s Webb Telescope shines with American ingenuity

Credit: Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center To send humans to the Moon 50 years ago, an entire nation rose...

A sharper focus: New computational technique resolves compressed X-ray data

Credit: Image by Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne develops novel method to more clearly see complex materials physics in difficult-to-access environments....

The top five strangest poisons that can kill you (video)

Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, July 18, 2019 -- There are some crazy poisons in this world of ours,...

Coaching scientists to play well together

Free tool shows how to avoid fights over data and authorship conflicts 'You stole my idea' or 'I'm not getting...

Tiny vibration-powered robots are the size of the world’s smallest ant

Credit: Allison Carter, Georgia Tech Researchers have created a new type of tiny 3D-printed robot that moves by harnessing vibration...

Adding a polymer stabilizes collapsing metal-organic frameworks

Credit: Li Peng (EPFL) Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a special class of sponge-like materials with nano-sized pores. The nanopores lead...

Genetic differences between strains of Epstein-Barr virus can alter its activity

Genetic differences between the two main strains of the blood cancer-triggering virus have been shown to change the way the...

Improving the signal-to-noise ratio in quantum chromodynamics simulations

A new Monte Carlo based simulation method enables more precise simulation for ensembles of elementary particles Over the last few...

The art of sensing within the skin

Dermal tattoo sensors for the detection of blood pH change and metabolite levels The art of tattooing may have found...

Biochemistry: Versatile recycling in the cell