Explosion Inside!
The story of internal combustion, part 1.
chemistry
The Evolving Quest to Build Life in a Lab
Scientists want to create cells from scratch, to unveil life's origins or provide specialized functions. Are they close?
Silicon Should Have Won the Contest for Life. So Why Are You Made of Carbon?
Earth is overflowing with silicon. Carbon is comparatively scarce. Yet every living thing we have ever discovered is built around carbon, and the reason reaches from the sand beneath your feet to a st
Terraform Industries
Sunlight into methane for fracking prices
How SpaceX Streamlined the Raptor Engine
If you’re reading this, there’s a very good chance you’ve seen this famous image of three iterations of SpaceX’s Raptor rocket engine.
The Graphene Age
Making the miracle from Manchester
Things I Won't Work With: Straight Dimethyl Zinc
The Mystery of Dark Oxygen
James Dinneen on the search for dark oxygen in the Moab Khotsong gold-and-uranium mine, outside Johannesburg, South Africa.
Rocket science: Why it's hard
Beyond Balloons: The hidden helium crisis
How do we get helium? And what do we use it for?
Who cares if he's evil?
It's what you do, not how you do it…
The Graphene Age
Making the miracle from Manchester
How Carbon Fibre Conquered The World
Just weave and add resin!
A Chinese scientist built a sodium battery that charges in 4 minutes. It could break China’s 75% lithium dependence.
Lu Yaxiang, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Physics, has spent a decade making sodium-ion batteries commercially viable. In April, he received China’s Youth May Fourth Medal, the country’s top honour for outstanding achievers under 35, for developing…
The Chemistry of Chips
The unseen infrastructure of chipmaking
The Tank Killer: Making Tungsten
Life, death and new worlds: Gifts from the miracle metal.
The American Missile Crisis | Contrary Research
A deep dive from Contrary Research.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/methyl-methacrylate-tank
This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in a almost half century
Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures.
Batteries Charge To The Edge
Chemistry is becoming the determining factor across many markets as focus shifts to power.
Bizarre ‘compleximers’ break the rules of both glass and plastic
Scientists thought glassy substances had to be either moldable or impact-resistant—but compleximers are both
How chemists engineer the signature smells of luxury perfumes
At Givaudan and IFF, chemists build—and safeguard—new aroma molecules tightly linked to emotion and memory
Atomic-Scale Protein Filters
How aquaporin and potassium channels filter hundreds of millions of water molecules or ions each second, by positioning the correct amino acid in the perfect place.
Miller–Urey experiment - Wikipedia
What Exactly Is E-Ink—and How Does It Do Its Thing?
You see it mentioned on almost every e-reader device—that is, tablet specialized for reading e-books—but what is it, really?
Review: The Molecule We Can’t Live With, and Can’t Live Without
Carbon dioxide is both a planetary threat and a driving force behind life on Earth, according to author Peter Brannen.
How Common Is Accidental Invention?
One of the most important inventions of the 19th century was mauve dye, the first synthetic aniline dye.
Life’s Ancient Bottleneck
Of the six chemical elements necessary for life, phosphorus is the rarest. It determines what grows and shrinks, who lives and dies. By disrupting the planet’s phosphate cycle, unchecked factory farming could have apocalyptic consequences.
The neglected ‘laws’ of chemistry – and why they matter | Aeon Essays
Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe
The alchemy of air : a Jewish genius, a doomed tycoon, and the scientific d
Why plastic doesn't dry in the dishwasher
Plastic is a staple of modern kitchens, but it comes with a frustrating problem – it doesn't dry properly in a dishwasher. Why?
How We Solved the Hole in the Ozone
A scientist’s first-hand account shows the world can tackle a global environmental crisis.