Highlights
C&EN: Crystals defy their symmetry to discern chiral light
24 June 2025Centrosymmetric crystals have always absorbed equal amounts of left- and right-handed circularly polarized light—until now.
C&EN: Magnetic stirrers linked to issues with reproducing chemistry results
17 June 2025From the lab that found impurities on your stir bar—your flask’s placement on a stirrer plate can mess with your reaction too.
C&EN: ‘Perplexanes’ achieve mind-bending molecular topology
10 June 2025Zirconium helps to weave entangled nanocarbon cages in high yields.
C&EN: Atom-thin iodine film makes its debut
29 May 2025Iodinene is the first halogen analog of graphene and is expected to be unusually metallic.
C&EN Talented 12: Sascha Feldmann
23 May 2025Commanding charged particles and light for energy efficiency.
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C&EN: Oxidant may offer a boost to greener rockets
An alternative to polluting ammonium perchlorate shows promise as a propellant ingredient.
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C&EN: How one university built a COVID-19 screening system
Campus testing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holds important lessons about the strengths and limitations of routine testing regimen.
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C&EN: Click chemistry sees first use in humans
Targeting mechanism could help to avoid side effects of powerful anticancer drug.
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C&EN: Database brings clarity to chemical weapons lists
Molecular structures and other identifiers will help to compare and contrast chemical warfare agents controlled by three different international frameworks.
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C&EN: DMSO poses decomposition danger
Acids produced by heating dimethyl sulfoxide can trigger a runaway reaction.
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C&EN: COVID-19 antigen assay set to triple US testing capacity
Abbott aims to produce 50 million of the 15-minute, $5 tests per month.
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Nature: Can the history of pollution shape a better future?
The poisonous legacy of industry holds lessons, two books show.
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C&EN: Saliva tests show promise for COVID-19 surveillance at universities and workplaces
Protocols developed at University of Illinois and Yale School of Public Health join growing list of spit-and-test diagnostics.
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C&EN: Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reaches Resolution Milestone
Detailed protein structures are fuelingdrug-discovery efforts.
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C&EN: Artificial intelligence finds alternative routes to COVID-19 drug candidates
If drug-repurposing studies hit pay dirt, backup recipes could help antiviral manufacturers avoid supply chain problems.
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