Category Archives: Highlights

Inchworms can stroll for hours using scraps of heat from the environment.

A dash of bromomethane curbs carbon dioxide emissions from industrial process used to make olefins from syngas.

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.