How do you destroy a forever chemical?
3M offers $10.3 billion settlement over PFAS contamination in water systems. What's next? Enlarge (credit: Andrew Brookes) PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea at first. As Teflon, they made pots easier to clean starti.....»»
3M to phase out "forever chemicals" PFAS by 2025
US industrial giant 3M announced Tuesday it will phase out production of so-called "forever chemical" PFAS in light of tightening regulation connected to harmful health effects from their use......»»
Coherent manipulation of spin qubits at room temperature
A research group led by Prof. Wu Kaifeng from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences recently reported the successful initialization, coherent quantum-state control, and readout of spins at room temperature using.....»»
Using quantum-inspired computing to discover an improved catalyst for clean hydrogen
Researchers from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering and Fujitsu have developed a new way of searching through 'chemical space' for materials with desirable properties......»»
U-Best ready for HC film volume production
U-Best Innovative Technology (formerly U-Best Polymer Industry), a chemical materials supplier, has developed hard coat films for foldable smartphones and has already gone through related product validation with China-based brand vendors, according t.....»»
Scientists create chemical compound that can reverse effects of methamphetamine and fentanyl
Drug overdoses in the United States have risen sharply in the last two decades. Nearly 92,000 people died from overdoses of illegal drugs and prescription opioids in 2020—more than five times the number of deaths in the year 2000—and synthetic op.....»»
Developing a standoff coherent Raman spectrometer
A novel air-laser-based standoff Raman spectrometer with high temporal and frequency resolutions has been constructed by Yao Fu and colleagues. The device can remotely probe chemical species in real time with high temporal resolution while monitoring.....»»
Mitigating corrosion by liquid tin could lead to better cooling in fusion reactors
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and the National Institute for Fusion Science have clarified the chemical compatibility between high temperature liquid metal tin (Sn) and reduced activation ferritic martensitic, a candidate structural ma.....»»
Breakthroughs in atomistic neural network representations for chemical dynamics simulations
A team led by Prof. Jiang Bin from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) made a series of breakthroughs in chemical dynamics simulations of molecular, condensed phase and interfacial systems by applying an atomistic neural network.....»»
Astronomers investigate chemical composition of multiple stellar populations in NGC 2808
Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have inspected the globular cluster NGC 2808. Results of the study, published December 2 on the arXiv pre-print repository, shed more light on the chemical compo.....»»
A robust self-healing polymer made from a common chemical
Material scientists at RIKEN have created a self-healing polymer by using an off-the-shelf compound for the first time. The strategy they used is promising for improving the durability and minimizing the environmental impact of various commercial pol.....»»
Layered feedback mechanisms add control to engineered cells
Dr. Chelsea Hu, an assistant professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University and a member of the Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship (ACES) Faculty Fellows Program, is using synthetic biology to.....»»
Rainwash eDNA provides minimally invasive method to assess tree canopy invertebrate diversity
Tree-climbing, cranes, chemical knockdown—collecting samples from the canopies used to be very time-consuming. Scientists from the UDE's working group "Aquatic Ecosystem Research" led by Prof. Dr. Florian Leese now had a brilliant idea: Shortly bef.....»»
Chemists develop reactions for the general synthesis of promising unexplored compounds
Chemists at Scripps Research have devised the first general method for synthesizing a family of compounds called 1,2,3,5-tetrazines, which hold great promise for making pharmaceuticals, biological probes and other chemical products......»»
A dangerous pesticide isn"t being monitored in key bird of prey populations. We"re shedding light on that gap
It was once regarded as a miracle chemical to protect against disease and improve global food production. The man who discovered its properties even won a Nobel Prize for medicine. But today, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is best known for it.....»»
Meta, Amazon, Twitter layoffs: "Tech layoffs won"t destroy American dreams of Indians’
Surbhi Gupta, who was laid off in the US, on the uncertainties she and other visa holders are dealing with......»»
Meta, Amazon, Twitter layoffs: "Tech layoffs will not destroy our American dreams"
Surbhi Gupta, who was laid off in the US, on the uncertainties she and other visa holders are dealing with......»»
Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices
CryWiper masquerades as ransomware, but its real purpose is to permanently destroy data. Enlarge Mayors' offices and courts in Russia are under attack by never-before-seen malware that poses as ransomware but is actuall.....»»
If there is phosphine on Venus, there isn"t much
In the absence of direct observations of extraterrestrial life, scientists often focus on searching for biosignatures, chemical by-products of life, that can be detected with remote sensing. Although Mars has received the most attention in this regar.....»»
New clues about how carbon dioxide affects bumble bee reproduction
While a beekeeper puffing clouds of carbon dioxide into a hive to calm the insects is a familiar image to many, less is known about its other effects on bees. A recent study revealed clues about how the chemical compound affects bee physiology, inclu.....»»
Exploring nanodiamonds that can be activated as photocatalysts with sunlight
Nanodiamond materials have great potential as catalysts. Inexpensive nanoparticles made of carbon provide very large surfaces compared to their volume. However, to catalytically accelerate chemical reactions in an aqueous medium, electrons from the c.....»»