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How chemistry can keep glow-in-the-dark pigments from fading
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (356+ words) Ars Technica Fashionistas of a certain age no doubt remember the late designer Stephen Sprouse, who gave Blondie’s Debbie Harry her distinctive Bowery punk style. Sprouse’s first collections in the mid-1980s made a major splash, melding graffiti prints, a playful…...
Have physicists finally discovered glueballs? New evidence points to yes.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (202+ words) “It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.” Physicists with the Beijing Spectrometer III (BES III) experiment have uncovered convincing new evidence of the existence of so-called glueballs, an elusive composite particle…...
Gold isn’t inert, it just has bodyguards protecting it
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (739+ words) Individual gold atoms move around to form oxidation-proof structures. Gold is weird. It’s one of the few metals that doesn’t really oxidize. Even silver and copper—from the same column of the periodic table—form weak oxides. Naively, you might…...
Chemistry Nobel prize awarded for building ordered polymers with metal
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (258+ words) On Wednesday, the Nobel Prize Committee honored three researchers for their role in developing MOFs: Richard Robson for demonstrating the first MOF, and Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi for developing them to their full potential. Unlike traditional polymers, this structure…...
How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors
5+ mon, 13+ hour ago (624+ words) Ars Technica Bourbon is a multi-billion-dollar market, but the American barrel-aged whiskey also produces a lot of wasted grain at distilleries. Chemists at the University of Kentucky developed a method to transform that stillage into electrodes and used those electrodes…...
A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (32+ words) “We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important.” See full article... A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked...
Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?
7+ mon, 1+ day ago (315+ words) Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series. She has been writing professionally about... Graphene is…...
New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (326+ words) Rather than being used as a storage material, the sulfur gives up electrons. But a team of Chinese researchers has managed to turn sulfur’s complex chemistry into a strength, making it the primary electron donor in a sodium-sulfur battery that…...
Physicists 3D-printed a Christmas tree of ice
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (25+ words) New method uses no freezing technology or refrigeration equipment—just water and a vacuum. See full article... Physicists 3D-printed a Christmas tree of ice...
Study: Kids’ drip paintings more like Pollock’s than those of adults
9+ mon, 5+ day ago (416+ words) Jennifer is a senior reporter at Ars Technica with a particular focus on where science meets culture, covering everything from physics and related interdisciplinary topics to her favorite films and TV series. She has been writing professionally about... Not everyone…...