Author Archive for: David Bradley (472)

Cracking Open Oysters

Cracking Open Oysters

The chemical glue that allows oysters to stick to rocks has been identified; it could be used in boating and medicine

Promoting Natural Painkiller

Promoting Natural Painkiller

New drug enables the body's internal answer to the cannabis chemical THC, effectively control pain at the site of an injury

Disobedient Ceramics

Disobedient Ceramics

Ceramic materials that disobey Ohm's law of electrical resistance could help explain why certain circuits degrade

Probable Structures

Probable Structures

Calculating NMR spectra could help organic chemists identify stereoisomers, according to work by theoretical chemists

Stellar Moisture

Stellar Moisture

UV light is essential to the formation of water in the atmosphere of stars according the European Space Agency

Brute Force Materials

Brute Force Materials

Combinatorial chemistry improves photonic metamaterials with interesting electromagnetic properties for optical switching

Ensuring Bite-Free Picnics

Ensuring Bite-Free Picnics

Understanding the chemistry behind insect repellants could help chemists design alternatives to DEET and its ilk

Halogen Sense

Halogen Sense

Enzymatic fiber-optic biosensor could be used as a continuous in situ monitoring device for halogenated environmental pollutants

Silvery Sheen for Fluorination

Silvery Sheen for Fluorination

A silver-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction allows incorporation of fluorine into aromatic groups with high molecular complexity

Agelastatin Activity

Agelastatin Activity

The biologically active agelastatins have succumbed to an efficient total synthesis on the gram scale opening up their potential as anticancer drugs