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• Bordeaux Wine Snobs Have a Point, According to This Computer Model

  05-12-2023 15:12 via nytimes.com
  With machine learning, scientists are trying to chemically define the murky concept of terroir. The models might be useful for detecting wine fraud.
  
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• Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 3 Quantum Dots Researchers

  04-10-2023 15:48 via nytimes.com
  
  Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov developed and discovered quantum dots, particles whose size governs their properties.
  
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• Chemistry Nobel Prize Revealed in Media Hours Early

  04-10-2023 14:56 via nytimes.com
  
  Some Swedish news outlets correctly reported the laureates’ names even before the choice was formally signed off, according to the academy that awards the prize.
  
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• Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to 3 Scientists for Work With Quantum Dots

  04-10-2023 14:52 via nytimes.com
  
  Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov were selected for the prize for their discovery and development of the nanoparticles.
  
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• Lise Meitner, the ‘Atomic Pioneer’ Who Never Won a Nobel Prize

  02-10-2023 06:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Lise Meitner developed the theory of nuclear fission, the process that enabled the atomic bomb. But her identity — Jewish and a woman — barred her from sharing credit for the discovery, newly translated letters show.
  
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• Por qué los amarillos de Miró han perdido su brillo

  21-09-2023 03:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Los investigadores descubrieron que una marca de pintura preferida por el artista español tenía una estructura atómica que la predisponía a la degradación.
  
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• Why Miró’s Yellows Have Lost Their Brilliance

  18-09-2023 11:01 via nytimes.com
  
  Researchers discovered that a particular brand of paint favored by the Spanish artist had an atomic structure that predisposed it to degradation.
  
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• Looming Retraction Casts Shadow Over Ranga Dias and Study of Superconductors

  26-07-2023 19:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Misconduct allegations are leading scientists to question the work of Ranga Dias, including his claimed discovery of a room-temperature superconductor.
  
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• Charles Lieber, Ex-Harvard Professor, Sentenced in China Ties Case

  26-04-2023 23:23 via nytimes.com
  
  Charles Lieber had been seen as a potential Nobel Prize-winning chemist, but was convicted in 2021 of lying to federal investigators and failing to report income.
  
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• Overlooked No More: Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created a Treatment for Leprosy

  08-04-2023 20:39 via nytimes.com
  
  After she died — and just a year after her discovery — another scientist took credit for her work. It would be more than half a century until her story resurfaced.
  
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• ACS Spring 2023 in Indianapolis

  30-03-2023 23:33
  Lots to celebrate at ACS’s fourth hybrid meeting
  
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• Aramco expands petrochemical presence in China

  30-03-2023 22:49
  Oil giant strikes 2 big deals as China-Saudi relations improve
  
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• This machine learning model takes MOF simulations to the next level

  30-03-2023 22:03
  The MOFTransformer model takes inspiration from the same technology that powers ChatGPT
  
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• Albemarle attempts to buy Australian lithium miner

  30-03-2023 15:02
  Liontown Resources has rejected the $3.7 billion offer
  
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• Fast-food packaging can emit volatile PFAS

  29-03-2023 21:15
  Study suggests polymers with fluorinated side chains degrade into toxic fluorotelomer alcohols
  
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• Cinven beats Ineos to buy MBCC Admixtures

  29-03-2023 19:42
  UK competition authority is forcing Sika to find another buyer
  
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• Small molecule treats multiple sclerosis in rodents

  29-03-2023 13:47
  Compound inhibits receptor associated with signaling in certain cells in the central nervous system
  
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• Oil is more likely to stick around in a cold, sunny ocean

  28-03-2023 23:12
  
  Photochemical weathering could make oil spills more viscous and less able to disperse or dissolve in seawater at low temperatures
  
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• Advisory panel recommends accelerated approval for ALS drug

  28-03-2023 19:57
  Despite a failed clinical trial, experts agree that the biomarker data reasonably predict benefit for patients
  
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• Peptide nucleic acids progress for gene editing and antisense drugs

  28-03-2023 17:53
  These lab-made molecules can bind to genes more strongly than DNA and RNA do, making them promising drug candidates and genetic tools
  
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• Chemists create chiral molecules using cobalt catalysts and a zap of electricity

  28-03-2023 17:00
  Electrochemical C–H activation builds diverse compounds enantioselectively
  
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• Reclassifying curls, coils, and kinks

  28-03-2023 12:57
  New research aims to make hair typing more inclusive
  
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• Regenerative engineering: Polymeric chemistry and materials science for regeneration

  26-03-2023 16:11
  Priestley Medal address 2023
  
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• Periodic Graphics: Making molecular sandwiches

  26-03-2023 16:09
  Chemical educator and <i>Compound Interest</i> blogger Andy Brunning looks at the chemistry and history of ferrocene and other sandwich compounds.
  
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• From the archives: A look back at how C&EN covered big events in chemistry over the past 100 years

  25-03-2023 17:48
  We capture the moment in 1928 that Wallace Carothers leaves Harvard for DuPont
  
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• Podcast: Microplastics pollute our drinking water. What are the risks?

  25-03-2023 17:44
  <i>Stereo Chemistry</i> explores efforts to detect the particles and what their presence means for health
  
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• Fragrance makers under investigation for cartel activity

  25-03-2023 17:36
  Dawn raids have taken place across Europe, but not everyone thinks the fragrance companies are guilty
  
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• Scientists sniff out the structure of a human olfactory receptor

  23-03-2023 22:26
  The research gives a first look at how chemicals trigger our sense of smell
  
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• Simple synthesis produces environmentally friendly energetic material

  23-03-2023 21:43
  DTAT-K could be an alternative to lead azide primary explosives
  
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• Making molecular movies of vision

  23-03-2023 21:13
  Researchers use femtosecond pulses of light to watch what happens when light hits the eye
  
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• Arsenite-induced necroptosis requires stress granules

  22-03-2023 21:15
  Process also depends on proteins that localize in stress granules
  
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• Raphael Mechoulam, ‘Father of Cannabis Research,’ Dies at 92

  22-03-2023 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  His work helped break down the chemical structures of THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, to figure out how cannabis makes users high.
  
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• European response to US cleantech incentives leaves industry and environmentalists fuming

  22-03-2023 20:27
  Proposed law won’t stop cleantech firms moving projects from Europe to the US, Europe’s chemical industry says
  
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• IUPAC’s new director discusses how IUPAC comes up with naming recommendations

  21-03-2023 20:43
  Greta Heydenrych also talks community building, digitizing chemistry, and creating a common language for scientists
  
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• Podcast: The risks and rewards of lithium iron phosphate batteries

  21-03-2023 17:00
  Reporter Matt Blois explains how an inexpensive material could transform North America’s electric vehicle industry on C&EN Uncovered
  
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• New sorbent captures 3 times as much CO₂

  20-03-2023 20:54
  The material can also convert the greenhouse gas into baking soda for ocean storage
  
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• EPA fast-tracks restrictions on 4 organophosphate pesticides

  20-03-2023 20:10
  Agency seeks to reduce spray drift to protect health of farmworkers and bystanders
  
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• This new molecule owes its chirality to oxygen alone

  20-03-2023 00:42
  The surprisingly stable chiral oxonium ion adds to fundamental principles in chemistry
  
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• Fragrance makers under investigation

  16-03-2023 19:48
  European regulators look to sniff out cartel activity among leading fragrance ingredient firms
  
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• The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes

  15-03-2023 16:51 via nytimes.com
  
  A century ago, Thomas Midgley Jr. was responsible for two phenomenally destructive innovations. What can we learn from them today?
  
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• Private equity firm Apollo to buy distributor Univar

  14-03-2023 22:31
  The third-largest chemical distributor finds a home after failed talks with rival Brenntag
  
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• EPA targets 6 PFAS in drinking water

  14-03-2023 21:34
  US proposal sets limits for legacy and commercially relevant ‘forever’ chemicals
  
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• Pfizer snaps up Seagen for $43 billion

  14-03-2023 20:12
  ‘The right merger at the right time,’ says Seagen CEO
  
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• Wastewater treatment releases nearly double the methane that was previously thought

  14-03-2023 18:56
  Laser measurements taken from public roads in the US provide better estimates than current EPA and IPCC guidelines do, researchers say
  
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• When do standards of chemical purity break down?

  14-03-2023 16:51
  Amid imprecise results and alleged fraud, chemists debate whether journals should require results of elemental analysis to confirm a product’s purity
  
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• China’s Sinopec marches into green hydrogen

  13-03-2023 20:47
  Oil and chemical giant to use the raw material to make chemicals from coal
  
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• Why lecanemab’s success spells the revival of small-molecule Alzheimer’s treatments

  13-03-2023 00:46
  Unlike bulky biologics, small molecules can make Alzheimer’s treatments cheap, convenient to administer, and widely accessible, experts say
  
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• The US aims to close its fermentation capacity gap

  12-03-2023 15:33
  The country is a leader in developing biotech routes to chemicals, but it lacks facilities to make them
  
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• Science ranks high in Biden’s 2024 budget plan

  10-03-2023 23:07
  President proposes increases for research funding and environmental justice
  
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• ACS honors its 2023 Outreach Volunteers of the Year

  10-03-2023 03:27
  Evonne Baldauff of the Pittsburgh Section is named the global winner
  
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