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The Origins of Cannabis Smoking: Marijuana Use in the First Millennium BC

June 14, 2019

A chemical residue study of incense burners from ancient burials at high elevations in western China has revealed psychoactiv...

Scientists Offer Designer 'Big Atoms' on Demand

May 30, 2019

The research centers around colloidal particles that, when mixed with liquid crystals, act a lot like the elements of th...

Chemical Juggling with Three Particles

May 24, 2019

Bonn University and Columbia University chemists discover a novel and sustainable reaction mechanism

Plastic Gets a Do-Over: Breakthrough Discovery Recycles Plastic from the Inside Out

May 7, 2019

Scientists from Berkeley Lab have made a next-generation plastic that can be recycled again and again into new materials...

Sensor Can Detect Spoiled Milk before Opening

May 7, 2019

The sensor consists of chemically coated nanoparticles that react to the gas produced by milk and the bacterial growth that i...

Water That Never Freezes

April 11, 2019

Can water reach minus 263 degrees Celsius without turning into ice?

Ensuring Controlled Reactions, from Benchtop to Kilo Scale

April 9, 2019

Versatile chemical reactors are essential for research, scale-up, and production

Scientists Pioneer New Low-Temperature Chemical Conversion Process

April 4, 2019

Cyclohexane is an important starting molecule in a wide range of chemical reactions

Heroines of the Periodic Table

March 22, 2019

In honor of Women's History Month, here's the story of two of chemistry's most brilliant and bold women

Light Provides Control for 3D Printing with Multiple Materials

March 13, 2019

More complex applications could be developed if 3D printers could use different materials and create multi-material parts...

Highly Reproducible Low Temperature Chemistry System

March 8, 2019

The DrySyn SnowStorm range offers an attractive solution for scientists looking to undertake low temperat...

Three Ways Studying Organic Chemistry Changes the Brain

March 8, 2019

The discoveries about the neuroscience of learning open the possibility of informing and enhancing instructional methods in s...

Metrohm USA Announces 7th Annual Young Chemist Award Winner

February 20, 2019

Jeffrey Lopez is the winner of the 2019 Young Chemist Award

Nitrogen Gets in the Fast Lane for Chemical Synthesis

February 11, 2019

Chemists discover way to simplify synthesis of valuable precursor for drugs, other compounds

Millions of Tons of Plastic Waste Could Be Turned into Clean Fuels, Other Products

February 7, 2019

The conversion process incorporates selective extraction and hydrothermal liquefaction

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