Chemistry3446 articles archived since 1845
Egyptian Vats 5,600 Years Old Were For Beer Brewing
Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Hierakonpolis discovered five ceramic vats containing residues consistent with brewing beer.
Key Photosynthesis Complex Viewed in Spinach
Findings fuel hopes for improved food-crop efficiency
Why Carbon?
Musings on a symphony in C
Some Mosquito Repellents Act like Invisibility Cloaks
Synthetic repellents such as DEET seem to mask the scent of our “human perfume”—making us less obvious targets for mosquitoes. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Molecular Trap Locks Away CO2
New images reveal carbon dioxide ensnared in metal-organic frameworks
Tardigrade Protein Protects DNA from Chemical Attack
The Dsup protein protects DNA under conditions that create caustic free radical chemicals.
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: October 2019
Eating arsenic, what to do in case of fire, bubble computers, and more
Lithium-Ion Battery Creators Win Chemistry Nobel Prize
John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of lithium-ion batteries” that have led to portable electronic devices that are rechargeable virtually anywhere on the planet...
High-Energy Award: Lithium Batteries Win 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
The power packs drive mobile phones, laptops, electric cars and solar panels
Nobel in Chemistry for Lightweight Rechargeable Batteries
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to John Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”
How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
William Kaelin, Jr., Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza share the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.” New therapies for cancer and conditions such as anemia are in the pipeline, based on these discoveries...
Nobel in Physiology or Medicine for How Cells Sense Oxygen Levels
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to William G. Kaelin, Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.” They identified molecular machinery that regulates gene activity in response to changing levels of oxygen...
Scorpion Venom Could Lead to New Antibiotics
Scientists isolate and synthesize two compounds that can fight common, and even drug-resistant, infections
How Monarch Butterflies Evolved to Eat a Poisonous Plant
By engineering mutations into fruit flies, scientists reconstructed how the bright orange butterflies came to tolerate milkweed toxins
Lunar Geology in 1969; Heaven “Located” in 1869
Innovation and discovery as chronicled in Scientific American
Make Boba for Bubble Tea
A Teatime Activity from Science Buddies
A Newly Identified Protein May Be the Key to Vanquishing the Common Cold
Inactivating this protein in human cells and mice provided immunity to a range of viruses, but an effective treatment is still a long way off
Migrating Birds May Be Collateral Damage for a Popular Pesticide
Neonicotinoids may be partly responsible for declines in songbird populations
Make a Candle Flame Jump
A surprising science project from Science Buddies
