Recycling needs a revamp
Chemical and biochemical approaches take aim at plastic pollution
Slime-making craze has become a big business
Glue and borax sales have been brisk as kids and parents look for do-it-yourself activities
Setup may make transferring tert -butyl lithium and other pyrophoric reagents safer
Simple pieces of equipment decrease the danger of moving small volumes of chemicals prone to igniting
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Good times, bad times for chemical industry
A strong economy is overshadowed by trade wars and plastics woes
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LyondellBasell in talks to buy stake in Braskem
A deal would give LyondellBasell control of Brazil’s largest chemical maker
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Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning wrings all the molecular details out of the popular goo
Sexual harassment pervasive in science, National Academies study says
Cultural change needed to prevent injury to female faculty, students
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Chemists synthesize Saturn-shaped molecule
Flat, macrocyclic host captures fullerene guest with CH–π interactions
Multilayer coating could fight bacterial growth on plastic dental devices
Superhydrophilic film made of two sugar molecules could lead to cleaner retainers or tooth aligners
Plastics recycling with microbes and worms is further away than people think
Headlines about plastic-eating organisms belie tough, competitive road to development
Chemistry may have solutions to our plastic trash problem
Chemists explore ways to convert plastics into valuable products and to develop intrinsically recyclable polymers
Mysterious galactic radiation pinned on nanodiamonds
Spinning hydrogen-coated clusters of carbon atoms may be source of anomalous microwave emission spotted around our galaxy
Mechanisms for catalytic CO oxidation on platinum found at last
New surface chemistry method answers mechanistic questions that have eluded chemists for 40 years