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From The Hindu Archives, June 1, 1926: New steel alloy discovered
1+ hour, 57+ min ago (105+ words) The Hindu Rugby, May 31: The discovery of a new steel alloy is announced by Sir Robert Hadfield, head of Hadfields Limited, the great Shefield Steel Firm As indication of the high temperature which the alloy will heat, a gas turbine…...
IIT-M, IISc team makes carbon-free version of the ferrocene sandwich
2+ week, 4+ day ago (197+ words) Published - May 13, 2026 08: 00 am IST - CHENNAI A compound called ferrocene has been a landmark of chemistry for over seven decades. It consists of an iron atom sandwiched between two flat carbon rings. Its discovery launched the field of organometallic chemistry, with…...
Science Quiz on chemistries of the surface and the bulk
3+ week, 2+ day ago (55+ words) The Hindu Name the brilliant effect on display here. A form of iridescence, it is entirely due to features on the surface of the oyster shell. Credit: Brocken Inaglory (CC BY-SA) Published - May 08, 2026 05: 30 pm IST science (general) / The Hindu Quizzes...
In breakthrough, cheap aluminium may replace costly catalysts in pharma
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (86+ words) The Hindu Published - April 10, 2026 07: 30 am IST - HYDERABAD For more than a century, aluminium has been chemistry's workhorse " useful, abundant, cheap, albeit limited in its abilities as a catalyst. New work reported in Nature may change that. Transition metals such as…...
Fast-moving cornstarch acts like a liquid before hardening
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (85+ words) A new study reveals how cornstarch behaves like a liquid before solidifying, with implications for 3 D printing and soft robotics. If you mix cornstarch and water, you will have a substance that defies common sense. If you punch it with…...
Rein in pollution by chemicals industry
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (494+ words) This is not a story of simple negligence. The industry produces the medicines that fill hospital dispensaries, the materials that make solar panels possible, and the compounds that underpin modern agriculture. The problem is not what it makes. It is…...
Remembering Rosalind Franklin, whose photograph was crucial to discovering DNA's structure
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (390+ words) The Hindu When the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1962 was announced, the names on that list were Watson and Crick, shared with Wilkins. It was decades before Franklin's true role in this path-breaking discovery came to be known to the…...
Researchers discover chemical reaction that opens new avenues in drug development, protein science
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (474+ words) Updated - March 14, 2026 12: 41 pm IST Researchers have discovered a new chemical reaction, which spontaneously makes and breaks a sulphur-sulphur bond at room temperature, with possible application in drug development, protein science, biotechnology, and chemical and material science. The bond has so…...
Scientists rewire bacteria to build "designer" proteins on demand
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (558+ words) Published - March 11, 2026 07: 15 am IST - BENGALURU Researchers have found a way to hijack the natural protein-making facilities of bacteria to manufacture specific proteins of interest. They did this by turning a "nutrient gate" on a bacterial cell into a Trojan horse…...
What are carbon capture and utilisation technologies? | Explained
3+ mon, 5+ day ago (404+ words) What are carbon capture and utilisation technologies?...