Carbon dioxide screwing mechanism in porous crystal unravelled
Solid-state NMR used to probe dynamics of selective gas uptake
Plastic packaging waste upcycled into technical materials
Process takes on plastic recycling challenge by turning food packing into heat conducting and electromagnetic shielding material
Used cooking oil helps weed out fertiliser pollution
Inverse vulcanisation used to turn waste canola oil into controlled-release fertiliser
Bacterial factories rival petrochemical route to nylon building block
Significant step towards sustainable commercial route for producing glutaric acid
Alarm raised over microplastics in human faeces in first of its kind study
Nine different types of microplastic found in samples across the world could pose health risk
Paint achieves seemingly impossible by cooling buildings in direct sun
Coating offers a route to zero-carbon air conditioning
Chinese cave holds carbon dating ‘Holy Grail’
Carbon-14 measurements from stalagmites takes carbon dating back as far as it can go
Dwarf planet Ceres turns out to be extra-carbony
Asteroid belt’s largest object, thought to be a piece of rock, contains up to 20% carbon
Fluorinated compounds in cosmetic products
Moisturisers, shaving foam and foundation investigated as sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
Catalytic fix for nitrogen fixation
Single-atom ruthenium catalyst doubles efficiency of electrochemical reduction of nitrogen to ammonia
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Banned persistent pollutant still threatens half of killer whales
PCBs in world’s oceans could drive most contaminated populations to extinction
Super-reactive molecule could solve space sugar mystery
How did carbohydrates form in space and on early Earth? The clue might be in the carbene
Radical chain reactions could solve soot formation mystery
New theory suggests how solid particles of soot – or interstellar dust – form as volatile gaseous precursors burn
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Fatty acid residues reveal impact of climate change on ancient farming community
Lipid biomarkers help track an extended period of drought that brought societal changes to a Neolithic settlement
Chemical analysis adds to evidence for early microfossils
Well-preserved samples enable examination of intact microstructures rather than powdered material
Exoplanet with heavy metal atmosphere discovered
Iron found for the first time in gas giant’s ultra-hot atmosphere
Radical ion synthesis finally embraces green chemistry
Mechanochemical route to naphthalenediimide radical ions
Chlorine-free rocket fuel
Compound bearing 10 nitro groups could cut dangerous emissions from rocket launches
Prebiotically plausible version of pH gradient generating catalyst
Scientists create simple metal ion system could have facilitated early metabolic processes, like ATP synthesis
First firm evidence for liquid water on Mars
Not quite life on Mars, but there are lakes beneath the red planet’s glaciers
Puzzle of why very similar sugars can taste much sweeter than others solved
The sweetest saccharides form the strongest and shortest hydrogen bonds
A sweet way to make graphene
Green method generates nanomaterial by exfoliating graphite with sugars
Water splitting demonstrated in microgravity
Drop tower experiments show how future oxygen-generating systems could work in space
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