Highlights
C&EN: Gas looping boosts efficiency of carbon nanotube production
22 December 2025Methane pyrolysis reactor recycles process gases to improve output of nanotubes and hydrogen.
C&EN: Enhanced rock weathering shows little climate benefit in large trial
18 December 20253-year Swiss study underscores the importance of site selection to maximize CO2 sequestration.
Nature Nanotechnology: Brain–computer interfaces race to the clinic
12 December 2025Advances in materials science, microelectronics and semiconductor manufacturing are helping these devices to benefit patients.
C&EN: Europium complex harvests ambient energy to power minirobots
20 November 2025Inchworms can stroll for hours using scraps of heat from the environment.
Nature Biotechnology: Chemistry Nobel materials in the clinic
14 November 2025Human trials using metal–organic frameworks for drug delivery are underway, but challenges remain.
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Nature Biotechnology: Chemistry Nobel materials in the clinic
Human trials using metal–organic frameworks for drug delivery are underway, but challenges remain.
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Nature Index: How the US tech industry is shaping the transition to green energy
Major investments to fuel AI’s power demands are not the only way big tech is having an influence.
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C&EN: Diberyllocene is a Be–Be king
First solid compound to contain a beryllium-beryllium bond could unlock unusual chemistry.
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Chemical & Engineering News: Semiconductor silver sulfide stretches like metal
As the first known room-temperature ductile inorganic semiconductor, the material could boost flexible electronics applications.
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Nature: How fracking is upending the chemical industry
As shale-gas compounds flood the market, chemists are working out the best ways to convert them into the ingredients of modern life.
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Scientific American: Blind Medicine
Millions of patients depend on a rare radioactive form of one element to scan them for disease. But the old nuclear reactors that provide it are shutting down.
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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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