Highlights
C&EN: Light-powered hydrogen sensor plays it cool
14 December 2020Sensitive chip uses palladium-decorated titanium dioxide to detect traces of flammable gas at room temperature.
C&EN: Can the UK’s ambitious Operation Moonshot screening program for COVID-19 achieve liftoff?
06 December 2020Researchers question accuracy of rapid antigen tests and criticize government’s lack of transparency in multibillion-pound program.
C&EN: Cheaper cryo-EM on the horizon
20 November 2020Thermo Fisher hopes $1 million microscope could broaden access to microscopy method used to determine protein structures.
C&EN: Oxidant may offer a boost to greener rockets
18 November 2020An alternative to polluting ammonium perchlorate shows promise as a propellant ingredient.
C&EN: How one university built a COVID-19 screening system
02 November 2020Campus 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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Category Archives: Feature reporting
The digital underground
The virtual world behind London’s Crossrail, for Spectrum magazine.
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How fracking is upending the chemical industry
Nature article explores how chemists are adapting to the glut of shale gas.
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The hole story
Nature article about Swiss-cheese-like materials called metal–organic frameworks.
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The robo-chemist
A Nature article about the effort to build a machine that can synthesize any organic compound.
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Lights, Camera, Acrimony!
A torrid tale of physics and showmanship, for Nautilus magazine.
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Chernobyl’s legacy
A journey to the heart of the exclusion zone, on the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident.
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Chernobyl’s legacy
Chernobyl’s legacy A journey to the heart of the exclusion zone, on the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident.xx
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