Author Archives: Mark Peplow

Critics slammed attempts by Google, Microsoft and Meta to speed up materials discovery. But behind the hype, there is progress.

Some researchers are calling for strict limits, while others speak out against prematurely halting basic science.

Scandium and chromium compounds team up to convert iconic molecule into linear product at room temperature.

Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now.

From the lab that found impurities on your stir bar—your flask’s placement on a stirrer plate can mess with your reaction too.

Zirconium helps to weave entangled nanocarbon cages in high yields.

Iodinene is the first halogen analog of graphene and is expected to be unusually metallic.

Commanding charged particles and light for energy efficiency.

Harnessing hot electrons for clean chemicals.

Electric arc furnace tackles low-grade ores, emitting much less carbon dioxide than conventional methods.