Chemistry

  1. Chemistry

    Lighting up for uranium

    A portable sensor could make it possible to rapidly detect environmental uranium contamination.

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  2. Chemistry

    Magnet makeover

    A new family of magnets may be a first step toward organic versions of the familiar metal objects.

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  3. Chemistry

    Fish Killer Caught? Ephemeral Pfiesteria compound surfaces

    Scientists claim to have found an elusive algal toxin implicated in massive fish kills along the Mid-Atlantic coast in the 1990s.

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  4. Chemistry

    Switch Hitters: Antibacterial compounds target new mechanism to kill microbes

    Recently discovered ribonucleic acid segments, called riboswitches, may become prime targets for new antibacterial drugs.

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  5. Chemistry

    For sweat’s sake

    Soldiers and emergency crews may one day find comfort as well as safety in their chemical-protection gear, now that researchers have created a breathable, chemical-blocking composite material.

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  6. Chemistry

    Happy fish?

    Researchers have detected antidepressant drugs in the brains of fish captured downstream of sewage-treatment plants.

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  7. Chemistry

    Together and apart

    Chemists report the first chemical reaction that can split apart and recombine the two atoms in molecular hydrogen without using an expensive metal catalyst.

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  8. Chemistry

    Chemical Pop-Up Books

    Chemists and engineers have designed two-dimensional structures that self-fold into functional, three-dimensional objects, such as miniature chemistry laboratories and drug-delivery devices.

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  9. Chemistry

    Were Viking landers blind to life?

    The Viking landers may have missed potential signs of life when they explored Mars in 1976.

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  10. Chemistry

    Unnatural success

    Chemists report the first synthesis of a promising antibiotic that other researchers recently discovered in nature.

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  11. Chemistry

    Back on the Table? Element 118 is served up again

    A team of nuclear chemists from the United States and Russia have announced the brief reappearance of element 118.

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  12. Chemistry

    Pretty in Pictures: Details of molecular machinery gain Nobel

    This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to a researcher who determined the structure, in atomic detail, of RNA polymerase taken from yeast cells.

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