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How Life Solved Its "Impossible" Problem: Leading Chemist Explains Life Doesn't Need a Miracle to Appear
4+ hour, 25+ min ago (1782+ words) Life may have emerged from a surprisingly simple network of chemical reactions long before cells or genes existed. The origin of life is one big chemical Catch-22. It always has been. It's a biochemical ouroboros: everything needs everything else to…...
Scientists Capture the X-ray Fingerprint of a Single Atom for the First Time — And This Could Change Everything
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (1059+ words) Home " Features " Pieces The achievement has potential implications from medicine to materials science. In a quiet lab at Argonne National Laboratory, Saw-Wai Hla and his team were huddled around their instruments late one night when they detected the spectral signature…...
Scientists Just Created a Biological Concrete that Heals Itself and Is Carbon Negative
1+ week, 4+ day ago (908+ words) Home " Research " Materials We really need to do something about our cement. We live in the Age of Concrete. Look around you. If you're inside, the building likely has a lot of concrete. If you're outside, you're standing on concrete....
This New Iron-On Patch Could Make Smart Clothing as Easy to Apply as a Decal
1+ week, 4+ day ago (704+ words) Flexible new electronic material bonds with fabric using just a household iron. Virginia Tech engineers have found a new way to wire clothing. They ironed a thin electronic patch onto fabric, and when powered, it lit up the letters "VT…...
Scientists Create the Darkest Fabric Ever Made Inspired by a Bird-of-Paradise’s Feathers
2+ week, 4+ day ago (563+ words) A tropical bird's feather structure inspires a new, wearable ultrablack fabric. Inspired by the feathers of a bird species whose plumage absorbs nearly all light, researchers at Cornell University have created a fabric that does the same. Their new material…...
Chemists Confirm 'High-Energy Water' That Supercharges the Bonds Holding Molecules Together
3+ week, 4+ day ago (459+ words) Water confined inside molecular cavities can supercharge chemical bonds and could perhaps reshape drug design. In a new study published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Constructor University in Bremen show that this…...
CERN Scientists Trap a Record-Breaking 15,000 Antihydrogen Atoms and Supercharge Antimatter Research
4+ week, 1+ day ago (704+ words) Home " Science " Chemistry CERN's ALPHA collaboration has pulled off a stunning breakthrough. Trapping antimatter is kind of like trying to catch snowflakes with a frying pan " if the snowflakes wanted to blow up the pan every time they touched it....
Yale Chemists Recreate a Sea-Sponge Molecule With Big Cancer-Fighting Potential
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (597+ words) This opens the door to understanding a mysterious marine compound. In the waters off South Korea, a modest sea sponge produces a molecule so unusual that chemists spent 14 years trying to make it. Now, a team at Yale has finally…...
Oldest Chemical Evidence of Life on Earth Found Inside 3.3 Billion Year Old Rocks
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (276+ words) Using AI and advanced chemistry, scientists uncovered 3.3-billion-year-old chemical traces that mark the earliest evidence of life on Earth. The new findings essentially double the window of time that organic molecules preserved in rocks can offer useful information about early…...
Scientists Just Found a Way to Spin Leftover Yeast From Beer Into Soft, Strong, Biodegradable Fabric
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (572+ words) This new yeast-based fiber could replace millions of acres of cotton fields Penn State researchers say the stuff we throw away after making beer, wine, and even some medicines could help feed people and clean up fashion at the same…...