. Scientific Frontline: Chemistry
Showing posts with label Chemistry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chemistry. Show all posts
Sunday, May 10, 2026

UChicago chemists invent new way to swap nitrogen into molecules

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A new technique allows researchers to more quickly create new molecules by easily swapping nitrogen atoms in the place of carbonyl groups, w...
Tuesday, May 5, 2026

How Life Could Arise from Molecules

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Polar water molecules cause DNA to form a double helix, with nonpolar elements on the inside and polar ones on the outside. Image Credit: Ma...

What Is: Chemosynthesis

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Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Chemosynthesis—Deep-Sea Sunless Life The Core Concept : Chemosynthesis is t...
Monday, May 4, 2026

AI Lab Discovers Brighter Lead-Free Nanomaterials

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Image Credit: North Carolina State University / Generative AI image from Adobe Illustrator Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

Going the distance

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Atreyie Ghosh (left) and Sarah King look at samples being transferred into an ultrahigh vacuum chamber for investigation with a time-resolve...
Saturday, May 2, 2026

Single-molecule tracker illuminates workings of cancer-related proteins

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Peng lab member and study co-first-author João Shida prepares to image nanoparticles using the lab's custom-built microscope. Photo Cred...
Friday, May 1, 2026

What Is: Quantum Biology

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Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Quantum Biology The Core Concept : Quantum biology is the study of non-triv...

New Nanoreactor Design Rule Improves Catalysis by Balancing Transport and Kinetics

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Nanoreactors consist of catalytic nanoparticles that are enclosed by a porous shell. It is essentially a lab-scale reactor scaled down order...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

Universal model provides design standards for efficient and durable perovskite solar cells

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The newly developed model revealed that both the band-bending phenomenon and the energy barrier height at the interface between the perovski...

Gene circuits reshape DNA folding and affect how genes are expressed

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When a gene turns on, it creates structural ripples along DNA that can activate or suppress neighboring genes, MIT researchers find. Image C...

How corals reveal the ocean’s hidden chemical footprint

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Coral reefs do more than sustain marine life. They record the chemical footprint of human activity in the ocean. Photo Credit:  Oleksandr Su...
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Mini-Antibodies Reactivate the Guardian of the Genome

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Structure of the DNA-binding domain of a reactivated p53 cancer mutant in complex with a stabilizing DARPin. Image Credit: Andreas Joerger, ...

How rock removes CO₂ from the atmosphere

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Giada Franceschi in the lab Photo Credit: © TU Wien  Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Rapid Mineral Carbonat...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Wild flatworms heal wounds

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Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : Wild Flatworm Regenerative Therapeutics The Core Concept : Exosomes contain...
Monday, April 27, 2026

Scientists at Rice pioneer faster, greener method to recycle lithium-ion batteries

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Simon M. King, a sophomore studying chemical and biomolecular engineering and first author of the study  Video Credit: Jorge Vidal/Rice Univ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Researchers develop method to make renewable natural gas directly from waste

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As part of the project, the team used a novel bacterial strain to upgrade the biogas in a reactor, converting carbon dioxide with hydrogen i...

Quantum dots for light technologies of the future

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Although perovskite quantum dots are comparatively easy to manufacture in solution, their soft ionic crystal lattices make them sensitive to...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Manchester scientists stabilise rare three‑atom metal ring, revealing new form of aromaticity

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Image Credit: University of Manchester Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Summary : All-Metal Aromaticity in Bismuth Rin...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

Ancient poo reveals uncertain future for Antarctic seabirds

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The guano, or poo, of nesting birds has given researchers clues to the history of these sentinel seabirds.  Photo Credit: Angela Gallego-Sal...

Mining waste product could help store carbon emissions

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Pouring smelter slag onto the dump Photo Credit:  Javier Rubilar ( CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Scientific Frontline: Extended "At a Glance" Sum...