Science News: Chemistry

Cats chewing on catnip boosts the plant’s insect-repelling powers

23/06/2022 No Comments

A pigment’s shift in chemistry robbed a painted yellow rose of its brilliance

08/06/2022 No Comments

Just 3 ingredients can quickly destroy widely used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’

03/06/2022 No Comments

Scientists made a Möbius strip out of a tiny carbon nanobelt

27/05/2022 No Comments

Oat and soy milks are planet friendly, but not as nutritious as cow milk

06/05/2022 No Comments

Grainy ice cream is unpleasant. Plant-based nanocrystals might help

29/03/2022 No Comments

Smoke from Australia’s intense fires in 2019 and 2020 damaged the ozone layer

17/03/2022 No Comments

Marie Maynard Daly was a trailblazing biochemist, but her full story may be lost

08/03/2022 No Comments

A disinfectant made from sawdust mows down deadly microbes

22/02/2022 No Comments

Oxygen-rich exoplanets may be geologically active

18/01/2022 No Comments

Wildfire smoke may ramp up toxic ozone production in cities

08/12/2021 No Comments

Here’s the chemistry behind marijuana’s skunky scent

30/11/2021 No Comments

This eco-friendly glitter gets its color from plants, not plastic

18/11/2021 No Comments

Lithium-ion batteries made with recycled materials can outlast newer counterparts

02/11/2021 No Comments

An easier, greener way to build molecules wins the chemistry Nobel Prize

06/10/2021 No Comments

Ink analysis reveals Marie Antoinette’s letters’ hidden words and who censored them

01/10/2021 No Comments

Luis Miramontes helped enable the sexual revolution. Why isn’t he better known?

01/10/2021 No Comments

50 years ago, chemical pollutants were linked to odd animal behavior

10/09/2021 No Comments

A pinch of saturated fat could make tempering chocolate a breeze

07/09/2021 No Comments

50 years ago, scientists developed self-destructing plastic

19/08/2021 No Comments

Many cosmetics contain hidden, potentially dangerous ‘forever chemicals’

03/08/2021 No Comments

Gene-editing tool CRISPR wins the chemistry Nobel

22/07/2021 No Comments

How does a crop’s environment shape a food’s smell and taste?

22/07/2021 No Comments

Methanol fuel gives this tiny beetle bot the freedom to roam

22/07/2021 No Comments

A new portable device can reveal a chili pepper’s heat

22/07/2021 No Comments

Heating deltamethrin may help it kill pesticide-resistant mosquitoes

22/07/2021 No Comments

50 years ago, scientists caught their first glimpse of amino acids from outer space

22/07/2021 No Comments

Supercooled water has been caught morphing between two forms

22/07/2021 No Comments

Zinc-air batteries are typically single-use. A new design could change that

22/07/2021 No Comments

Plastic drinking water pipes exposed to high heat can leak hazardous chemicals

22/07/2021 No Comments

A new iron-based catalyst converts carbon dioxide into jet fuel

22/07/2021 No Comments

This weird chemical bond acts like a mash-up of hydrogen and covalent bonds

22/07/2021 No Comments

Can room-temperature superconductors work without extreme pressure?

22/07/2021 No Comments

Phosphorus for Earth’s earliest life may have been forged by lightning

22/07/2021 No Comments

‘Designer molecules’ could create tailor-made quantum devices

22/07/2021 No Comments

Chemists are reimagining recycling to keep plastics out of landfills

22/07/2021 No Comments

A sweet father-son bond inspires tasty new molecule models

22/07/2021 No Comments

Nanoscale nutrients can protect plants from fungal diseases

22/07/2021 No Comments

Lightning may be an important source of air-cleaning chemicals

22/07/2021 No Comments

A new technique could make some plastic trash compostable at home

22/07/2021 No Comments