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…
Boosting Water Electrolysis Catalyst Performance via Simultaneous Control of Lattice Distortion and Oxygen Vacancies!
# A novel catalyst design enables simultaneous control of lattice structure and oxygen vacancies in molybdenum oxide through…
Sulfuric Acid Method Improves Accuracy of Nitrogen Isotope Tracking for Atmospheric Ammonia
Newswise — By comparing sulfuric and boric acid absorption systems, they found sulfuric acid delivers higher recovery rates…
Most mass spectrometers can process just a few molecules at once. A reengineered prototype does a billion simultaneously
Newswise — Mass spectrometry is already a powerful tool for determining what kind and how many molecules are…
Buan Aims to Better Understand Biochemistry of Methanogens
Newswise — Methanogens are organisms so tiny that most people never notice them, yet they are nearly everywhere…
Scientists capture elusive molecule tetroxides that could transform chemistry
image: ©tetroxides | iStock Researchers have directly observed a fleeting molecule known as tetroxides that has been theorised…
From straw to soil signals: How humification reshapes microbial life and resistance genes
By simulating lignocellulose transformation at different temperatures, they found that high-temperature humic substances stimulate microbial carbohydrate-active enzyme genes…
Quantum computers still struggle with chemistry’s hardest calculations
One of the biggest promises of quantum computing is the ability to simulate molecules with unprecedented accuracy. If…
Book of the day: Laws of Love and Logic by Debra Curtis
Review by Gill South New Zealand Listener· 12 Mar, 2026 05:00 PM4 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess…
Bringing proteins together to take cancer apart
At Novartis Biomedical Research, oncology teams around the world are taking on some of the biggest challenges in…
High-temperature superconducting dome mapped in nickelate thin films
Physicists hunting for new superconductors often look for a very specific shape hidden in their data—a dome. In…
New model hints sea ice salt amplified Earth’s ancient global glaciation
Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of the most extreme climate…