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Turning air into protein with electricity from solar panels would take a tenth of the land required to grow that protein the conventional way, according to a new analysis

Huge blocks of Venus’s crust appear to be jostling and bumping together similar to continental blocks on Earth, and they could help us understand our own planet’s past

Astronomers have found a large object entering our solar system – it could be an unusually large comet or even a minor planet, and it will get nearly as close to the sun as Saturn by 2031

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Hydrazone template could make it cheaper to prepare this host molecule

A secure quantum link has been created between two Chinese cities, allowing researchers to send entangled photons more than 500 kilometres using a relay hub in the middle that doesn't need to be trusted

Compound libraries set to benefit from process that harnesses promiscuity of post-translation enzymes

Huge swathes of Pluto’s surface are covered in a mysterious red material, and planetary scientists’ best guess for what it could be doesn’t seem to match up to data from the New Horizons probe

With pathogenic bacteria rapidly overcoming our arsenal of organic antibiotics, James Mitchell Crow asks if it is time to revisit metal-based antimicrobials

Molecule layer aids chemoselective hydrogenation on solid palladium catalysts

Temperature and humidity changes that influence the way flowers grow can make bumblebees picky eaters – and climate change could make them even more so

Study finally explains mysterious annual variations in painted lady butterfly numbers

Sethuraman Panchanathan also confronts increased scrutiny of the basic research agency

New synthesis route cuts material costs by 86 %

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Synthetic chemists dream of crystals. They suggest purity, and crystallographers can probe good-sized crystals with X-rays to determine the chemical structure of a substance. In this project at the University of Calgary, crystals are an essential part of separating isomers, chemicals that have the same formula but slightly different geometric configurations. In skilled hands, that slight difference in chemical properties is enough to make one version crystallize while another stays in solution. Читать дальше...

High-resolution data on air quality are helping scientists and community groups understand and address disparities in pollution between neighborhoods

With approved vaccines and better health-care systems, 2 recent outbreaks in Africa have been managed quickly and with few deaths