Tag: chemistry
Sugars in mother’s milk help shape baby’s microbiome and ward off...
Steven Townsend, Vanderbilt University
While living in a mother’s womb, cushioned by amniotic fluid and protected from the outside world, babies have only minimal exposure...
Chilled proteins and 3-D images: The cryo-electron microscopy technology that just...
Melanie Ohi, University of Michigan and Michael Cianfrocco, University of Michigan
Many people will never have heard of cryo-electron microscopy before the announcement that Jacques...
Researchers produce opioid pain killer from genetically modified…
Researchers produce opioid pain killer from genetically modified yeast with opium poppy genes
James Bruce, The Open University
The natural world has long been a source...
The perfect cup of coffee boils down to four factors
By Don Brushett
Welcome to the second instalment in our series Chemistry of Coffee, where we unravel the delicious secrets of one of the most...
Warming, decanting and swirling: do they make wine taste better?
By Alex Russell, University of Sydney
Do you inspect the appearance of a wine before swirling it around the glass (holding the stem, naturally)? Inhale...
EXPLORING NATURE
Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water,...
Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers...
