Scientists who were honored presented curiosities such as how people react to being told they are intelligent, how alcohol may aid foreign language speaking, and the physics of pasta sauce clumping

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A Transiton-Metal-Free Shortcut to Alkynyl–Sulfur Building Blocks
Under base conditions, thiadiazoles generate alkynylthiolates that smoothly substitute α-carbonyl bromides, yielding diverse S-containing tetrasubstituted carbon stereocenters

Japan’s Big Three Petrochemical Companies Merge Polyolefin Units
Mitsui, Idemitsu, and Sumitomo to merge PP and PE operations into Prime Polymer
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Cucurbit[7]uril-Based Polymers with Dual Photochromism and Fluorescence
Cucurbit[7]uril-based complexes with tunable assembly show adjustable photochromism and fluorescence for multilevel anti-counterfeiting and encryption

EuChemS Walter Thiel Award for Sandra Luber
Sandra Luber, University of Zurich, Switzerland, honored for outstanding contributions to computational chemistry

Marie Curie Exhibition in Genua Showcases Her Italian Travels
The exhibition, recently opened in Genoa, offers a unique glimpse into Curie’s travels and will continue to Rome, Pisa, and Paris

BASF, AkzoNobel, and Arkema Collaborate to Cut CO₂ Footprint of Powder Coatings
The companies report up to a 40% reduction in the carbon footprint of AkzoNobel’s super-durable Interpon D architectural powder coatings and published a study detailing methods, calculations, and transition strategies

Fast, Accurate, and Data-Efficient: The Future of Electron Density Prediction
GED-CRN model reaches MP2-level accuracy with only 19 training molecules, revolutionizing the design of aggregation-induced emission (AIE) materials with 1000x faster computation

Who’s Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 – Voting Results September 12
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