NHS staff as risk of regular exposure to high formaldehyde levels
image: ©Kittisak Kaewchalun | iStock Freedom of Information data reveals poor monitoring of the carcinogen formaldehyde, prompting researchers…
KRICT Launches Korea’s First Public DEL CoreBank Platform to Support Drug Discovery
Newswise — A Korean research team has launched a public drug discovery service capable of screening and validating…
Scientists look at space rocks to uncover how Earth got the ingredients for life
Image: © kyoshino | iStock By melting down ingredients to recreate how ancient space rocks formed, researchers have…
Scientists Identify Atomic Trick That Keeps Gold Shiny
If you own gold jewelry, you might notice that it doesn’t tarnish as easily as other materials, like…
A New Way to Fight Climate Change Emerges From Erupting Volcano
When the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apa submarine volcano erupted in 2022, it spewed roughly 2.9 billion tons of ash…
Chemists isolate unstable boron peroxide once thought impossible
Researchers at MIT have created an unusual oxygen-rich molecule that scientists have tried to isolate for decades. The…
Tuning atomic interfaces for future tech
Seung Gyo Jeong (left) and senior author Bharat Jalan (right) have created a new path toward tunable catalysis…
Synchrotron safety data and the hunt for dark matter
image: ©Evgeniy Lyachenko | iStock A researcher at Tokyo Metropolitan University has discovered that standard synchrotron safety monitoring…
Laser pulses reveal ‘rugby ball’ shape of Universe’s heaviest atoms
Some of the heaviest atoms in the universe barely exist long enough to be studied, but scientists have…
Here’s What Scientists Found When They Cooked Up Their Own ‘Mercury Rocks’
When studying Venus and Mars, Earth’s neighbors in the inner solar system, scientists often rely on what we…
2,000-year-old wall paintings reveal ingenious house painters
A new chemical study of the splendid wall paintings of the Domus of Salvius in present-day Cartagena discovered…
Researchers Turned Acid From Car Batteries Into Something Surprisingly Useful
Odd chemical pathways can give completely unexpected makeovers to some of the most troublesome waste; take, for example,…