Flame retardants from consumer electronic products are present in household dust, raising health concerns
Fireproofing the Dust
A Better, Lighter Deicer
Graphene stacks in an epoxy matrix make a conductive composite that melts ice on aircraft wings
Death by Peroxide for Cancer Cells
Five-membered ring organic peroxide is cytotoxic to cancer cells by ferroptosis, not apoptosis
Nondestructive Virus Detection
Nanohole fibers made of quartz glass permit nondestructive detection of viruses
A New Twist for Quantum Dots
Cysteine ligands cause graphene quantum dots to form left- and right-handed helices
Tilted Levitation Solves MagLev Problem
Tilting a magnetic levitation tube increases the range of densities it can measure tenfold
Magnesium-Powered Magnetism
New geological model provides missing information on what drives Earth's magnetic dynamo
Electricity from Heartbeats
Piezoelectric microgenerators could use the body's movements to power biomedical implants
Fire-Retardant Graphene Foams
Ultralight compressible foam outperforming traditional flame-retardant materials
Metal-Free Arene-Alkyne Cross-Coupling
Simple sulfoxide-directed reaction leads to useful molecular scaffolds