Tag: chemistry
Designing batteries for easier recycling could avert a looming e-waste crisis
Zheng Chen, University of California San Diego and Darren H. S. Tan, University of California San Diego
As concern mounts over the impacts of climate...
Nobel prize: two women share chemistry prize for the first time...
Kalpana Surendranath, University of Westminster
Emmanuelle Charpentier, director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Germany, and Jennifer Doudna, professor of biochemistry at...
Clever chemistry turns ordinary bricks into electricity storage devices
Julio M. D'Arcy, Washington University in St Louis
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
In my synthetic chemistry lab,...
How does a baby ‘breathe’ while inside its mom?
Julie Pollock, University of Richmond
“Mothering” is synonymous with “nurturing,” probably because moms start providing for their kids even before they’re born.
A fetus relies...
How does a baby ‘breathe’ while inside its mom?
Julie Pollock, University of Richmond
“Mothering” is synonymous with “nurturing,” probably because moms start providing for their kids even before they’re born.
A fetus relies...
Blue dye from red beets – chemists devise a new pigment...
Erick Leite Bastos, Universidade de São Paulo
What’s your favorite color? If you answered blue, you’re in good company. Blue outranks all other color preferences...
What makes wine dry? It’s easy to taste, but much harder...
Aude Watrelot, Iowa State University
When you take a sip of wine at a family meal or celebration, what do you notice?
First, you probably note...
Red, white but rarely blue – the science of fireworks colors,...
Paul E. Smith, Purdue University
In the earliest days of the United States, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail about the celebration of independence,...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
