The chemical glue that allows oysters to stick to rocks has been identified; it could be used in boating and medicine
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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
Ceramic materials that disobey Ohm's law of electrical resistance could help explain why certain circuits degrade
Probable Structures
Calculating NMR spectra could help organic chemists identify stereoisomers, according to work by theoretical chemists
Stellar Moisture
UV light is essential to the formation of water in the atmosphere of stars according the European Space Agency
Brute Force Materials
Combinatorial chemistry improves photonic metamaterials with interesting electromagnetic properties for optical switching
Ensuring Bite-Free Picnics
Understanding the chemistry behind insect repellants could help chemists design alternatives to DEET and its ilk
Halogen Sense
Enzymatic fiber-optic biosensor could be used as a continuous in situ monitoring device for halogenated environmental pollutants
Silvery Sheen for Fluorination
A silver-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction allows incorporation of fluorine into aromatic groups with high molecular complexity
Agelastatin Activity
The biologically active agelastatins have succumbed to an efficient total synthesis on the gram scale opening up their potential as anticancer drugs