Chemistry
We summarize the week's science breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Health & Medicine
No babies, no hormones
A radically different form of contraception would prevent pregnancies with small molecules of RNA.
- Health & Medicine
Virus versus virus
Customized RNA snippets delivered by a harmless virus could someday provide a new way to combat the hepatitis B virus.
- Chemistry
Small, But Super
These 'atoms' can't leap tall buildings in a single bound, but they have special powers.
- Chemistry
Life before proteins
Spheres of fat suggest a way that life on Earth could have gotten started.
- Chemistry
Deciding Who’s First
Oxygen serves as the focus of who to credit with a discovery – and why.
- Archaeology
Footprints in the ash
Humans may have been walking around what is now central Mexico 40,000 years ago.
- Chemistry
Kavli Awardees Named
Norwegian Academy awards three novel and hefty prizes to three teams of scientists.
- Chemistry
Bug be gone
Using software that mimics neural networks, researchers have found new mosquito repellents that last longer than commercially available repellent.
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- Chemistry
Slippery when dry
Surfaces that mimic the back of an African beetle can collect water from fog.
- Chemistry
Help the Climate: Empty the Fridge
Yesterday, I reported that in hopes of slowing down global warming, some nations were interested in strengthening the Montreal Protocol – a United Nations treaty to curb releases of chemicals that endanger stratospheric ozone. But I didn’t really get into what they had up their sleeves. It turns out they want signatory nations to eliminate […]
- Tech
I, computer
Bacteria that can "flip pancakes" with their DNA are the first microbes engineered to be living computers.
