Author Archives: Mark Peplow

Sensitive chip uses palladium-decorated titanium dioxide to detect traces of flammable gas at room temperature.

Researchers question accuracy of rapid antigen tests and criticize government’s lack of transparency in multibillion-pound program.

Thermo Fisher hopes $1 million microscope could broaden access to microscopy method used to determine protein structures.

An alternative to polluting ammonium perchlorate shows promise as a propellant ingredient.

Campus testing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holds important lessons about the strengths and limitations of routine testing regimen.

Targeting mechanism could help to avoid side effects of powerful anticancer drug.

Molecular structures and other identifiers will help to compare and contrast chemical warfare agents controlled by three different international frameworks.

Acids produced by heating dimethyl sulfoxide can trigger a runaway reaction.

Abbott aims to produce 50 million of the 15-minute, $5 tests per month.

The poisonous legacy of industry holds lessons, two books show.