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Bacteria Brews Better Biochemicals
A research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley has engineered bacteria…
Electronic Noses Should Smell Better
Electronic noses, or e-noses, are systems that combine chemical gas sensors, signal processing, and machine…
Turning Carbon Dioxide into Baking Soda
Lehigh Engineering researcher Arup SenGupta developed a way to turn carbon dioxide into a baking ingredient. The…
Now That’s a Pile
How would you like to use a battery that never needs recharging and lasts over 100 years? Sounds too good to be…
Highly Selective Catalysts via Robots and A.I. Teams
Creating an A.I. tool for chemical reaction design is challenging, especially for complex catalytic reactions.…
A First: Robot Able to Smell
We've come a long way. Eight years ago, I updated an article series I originally contributed to Digi-Key in 2011.…
JWST: The Distant Skies We’ve Never Seen Before
The James Webb Space Telescope revealed the first detailed molecular and chemical portrait of a distant world's…
Balding? Help on the Horizon with AI
Artificial intelligence is finding its way into numerous fields, including hair loss. Alopecia affects both men and…
Pencils, Carbon-Powered Jetpacks, and the Future of Everything
Chemists have long dreamed of the possibility of buckyballs, graphene, and carbon nanotubes. Science, as usual,…
Salk Scientists Find Link Between Immune System and Hair Growth
Salk scientists discovered an unexpected molecular target of a common treatment for alopecia. The findings,…