New device based on a porous zeolite can preconcentrate tiny quantities of explosives in a forensic sample for sensitive detection
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Calculating Crystals
Mathematics of materials emerges from information entropy; could lead to nimbler way to predict crystal structures from chemical formula
Attacking Latent HIV
New synthetic approach to anticancer drug bryostatin analogs opens up possibility of eradicating latent reservoirs of HIV in AIDS infection
Split the Difference
Doped nanochannels in tantalum nitride endow this material with the power to split water efficiently using sunlight
Desaturating Enzyme Mimic
US chemists have developed a laboratory analog of desaturase enzymes used to activate alkanes by converting them to free alkenes
Dual Purpose Dysprosium Complex
Dysprosium complex behaves not only as a single-molecule magnet but emits bright blue light under the right conditions
Resistance is Not Futile
The total synthesis of the antibiotic marinomycin A could nudge us towards antibiotics that defeat resistant microbes, such as MRSA
Vegetarian Isotopes
Study of trace metals in blood samples from vegetarians and omnivores reveals how gender and diet influence metal's accumulation
An Even-Handed Approach to Odd Hydrogen Bonds
A novel type of hydrogen bond, with implications for platinum-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation, has been spectroscopically identified
Halogen Control for Bromolactonizations
Bifunctional catalyst can generate lactones with new carbon-bromine bonds with high enantioselectivity for natural product synthesis