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Analytical Chemistry Sep 23, 2026

AI scans 4.6 million compounds in hours to predict hydrogen positions in drug-like molecules

New York University researchers have trained an AI model to learn chemical patterns associated with stability in drug-like molecules and accurately predict where their hydrogen atoms should be positioned.

Analytical Chemistry Sep 22, 2026

Microcrystal electron diffractometer brings hidden hydrogen into focus

Hydrogen—the lightest atom—does the heavy lifting when it comes to important chemical reactions. It can be stored and released as clean fuel, and its movements help catalysts build medicines, fertilizers and materials. One ...

Planetary Sciences Sep 22, 2026

3I/ATLAS has an extreme taste for heavy water

More and more details about 3I/ATLAS are filtering through the scientific process as time goes on. Our third known interstellar visitor attracted the attention of some of the world's most powerful observatories when it was ...

Ecology Sep 22, 2026

Hot spring amoeba breaks record for heat tolerance of complex life

A tiny, single-celled organism can thrive at temperatures that would kill all other known complex life. In a study published in Cell, scientists describe a new species of amoeba that can eat and reproduce in hot spring water ...

Agriculture Sep 22, 2026

Duncan Russet offers heat tolerance and virus resistance for southern potato growers

The latest potato variety released in August by the Texas A&M Potato Breeding Program, the Duncan Russet potato, delivers disease resistance that will directly benefit growers in the southern U.S., including Texas.

Analytical Chemistry Sep 22, 2026

Liquid crystal takes page from steel in surprising phase transition

A type of transformation best known for hardening steel and enabling shape-memory alloys may also occur in a much softer class of materials, according to new research from Rice University. Researchers in the departments of ...

Cell & Microbiology Sep 22, 2026

Bacteria-killing polymers—a new class of antibiotic?

Swimming in the blood, sweat, cells and tears of every human are small proteins known as peptides. Many peptides can kill bacteria on contact, yet the bacteria never seem to evolve resistance to them. Mass-produced peptides ...

Materials Science Sep 22, 2026

Water-based process separates zirconium and hafnium with fivefold higher efficiency

Oregon State University scientists have patented a better, more environmentally friendly process for separating two metals that are critical in their pure forms for the semiconductor and atomic energy industries.

Analytical Chemistry Sep 22, 2026

Iron complex breaks down stubborn pollutant using light-powered reaction

The molecular culprit behind harmful algal blooms and some groundwater contamination is the same thing that has kept civilization fed for millennia: a stable form of nitrogen called nitrate.

Biotechnology Sep 21, 2026

Circular mRNA helps cell factories make up to six times as much protein

A synthetic biology technology has been developed that converts easily degraded messenger RNA (mRNA) into a ring-shaped form inside microbial cells, increasing protein production.

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