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Tiny organelles trap pathogens, luring them with free food and then killing them with antimicrobial proteins

The plastic bottles used to feed babies shed an average of 4 million microplastic particles per litre into infant formula, but the impact on child health is unclear

Facebook has developed an AI that can translate directly between any pair of 100 languages without having to go through an English translation first, as many existing systems do

Mixture of pyruvate and glyoxylate is all that's needed

Renowned molecular biology institute is bringing click chemistry to drug discovery

Democrat Merav Ben-David wants to “put science in the Senate”

Update overcomes limitations and eliminates human biases intrinsic to the original formulation

Planning regular two-week lockdowns could be better than reacting to changing covid-19 case numbers, some scientists argue – but the UK may have left it too late for this strategy

Giant biomedical research funder says it will focus on infectious disease, mental health, and global warming

Cold-causing adenovirus used in four experimental COVID-19 vaccines increased risk of HIV infection when used in AIDS vaccine trials

When ground in a ball mill, solid lysine traps carbon dioxide in a quick and reversible manner

The first Chemistry Europe journal to give early career researchers a stronger voice in the journal’s development

Synthetic chemist’s Rorschach test

Agostina Mazeeo found this pattern in her round-bottom flask when she dried a reaction product. Mazeeo, a grad student at the University of Buenos Aires, has removed solvents from plenty of reaction mixtures, especially from porphyrins, which are hardy and useful but difficult to synthesize and purify. But when she dried this mixture, the results gave her pause. “I think the fractal image formed is beautiful, kind of messy but structured at the same time... Читать дальше...

Single-molecule conductance tuned via supramolecular interactions