Silicone wristbands work because they are made of a silicone polymer called polydimethylsiloxane, or PDMS, that can absorb many organic chemicals from the surrounding environment. As the band is worn, ...

Non-target screening using chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry is a powerful tool in environmental ...

Chemists from St. Petersburg University has developed a new family of luminescent iridium complexes that, for the first time, realize a unique mechanism of photoactivated proton transfer. In the ...

The 2026 International Women’s Day theme, “Give to Gain,” sounds aspirational, but the research behind it shows the science ...

Two nutrition experts compare Britain’s favourite hot beverages to find out which is most beneficial for our overall health ...

Abstract: This paper describes software for designing homodesmic reactions using the example of a cyclic compound of cyclobutanecarbonitrile. The homodesmic method showed high reliability of the ...

An MIT team used artificial intelligence to design novel antibiotics, two of which showed promise against MRSA and gonorrhea. With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed ...

In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Fungi have produced many of the important drugs we now take for granted. The first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered in fungi and so were the first statins. But fungi are still an underexplored ...

With the exception of lithium, alkali metals do not react with elemental nitrogen either at ambient conditions or at elevated temperatures, requiring the search for alternative synthetic routes to ...

ABSTRACT: The fight against bacterial infections is essentially based on the use of antibiotics. Unfortunately, bacteria have developed resistance mechanisms against antibiotics, particularly those of ...