October 19, 2026
Two Directions of Protein Chemistry: Predicting Nature’s Shapes—and Designing New Ones
Proteins are built from amino-acid chains, but their shapes help determine what they do. The work honored by the 2024…
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October 19, 2026
Haber-Bosch: The Chemistry That Made Fertilizer on an Industrial Scale
A century-old process turns nitrogen from the air into ammonia for fertilizer. Its chemistry helped transform agriculture—and still poses an…
October 19, 2026
A Steel Furnace Could Give Old Cement a Second Life
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have shown how waste cement from demolished concrete could help make steel—and emerge from…
October 17, 2026
A Chemistry Study Found a Way to Break Down Some PFAS—Not All of Them
A 2022 laboratory study used heat and familiar reagents to break down several perfluorocarboxylic acids. The chemistry is promising, but…