All articles by Victoria Corless
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ResearchElectrochemistry offers ‘modest’ boost to deuterium fusion reaction
Electrochemical cell used to increase density of deuterium fuel
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ResearchAI tools turned to creating designer proteins for personalised cancer therapies and antibiotics
Powerful new class of AI model could dramatically speed up process of producing new kinds of drug candidates
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ResearchLLMs could rewrite how AIs predict reactions and plan syntheses
Chemists welcome approach but warn that unthinking dependence on AI should be avoided
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ResearchLiquid carbon characterised in the lab for the first time
When targeted by a high-energy laser that generates pressures over one million atmospheres, carbon samples melt at around 6700K
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ResearchAI predicts transition states with exceptional precision
Model can complete tasks in under a second that take conventional methods hours
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ResearchFullerenes help explain why there’s so much molecular hydrogen in space
The famous carbon allotrope can catalyse the formation of hydrogen molecules in cold interstellar environments
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ResearchAI takes step towards cracking biology’s toughest problem – protein sequencing
The team hopes the system will eventually be as influential as AlphaFold was for protein structure prediction
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ResearchHow does your mummy smell? If it’s ancient Egyptian, woody, spicy and sweet
Analysis of odours could one day categorise which era a mummy came from
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ResearchSupramolecular ‘qudits’ offer a way to power-up quantum computers
Hydrogen bonding harnessed to produce molecular qubit with four quantum states
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ResearchHunt for life should search for minerals as well as water, Chinese scientists claim
Serpentine minerals form in warm water and break down to key ingredients for life
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ResearchNew Wittig reaction pathway proves old dog can learn new tricks
Breakthrough offers simple way to synthesise diverse triazabutadienes with a range of applications
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ResearchOne-electron covalent bond between two carbons pushes limits of bonding
Linus Pauling proposed exotic bonds but they have never been seen between two carbons until now
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ResearchDrugs and vaccines could be freed from cold chains by hydrogel
Stiff gel prevents proteins from aggregating, preserving their therapeutic power
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ResearchSuper-fast automated synthesis promises to make chemistry accessible to many more
Order of magnitude improvement in speed result of technology optimisation
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ResearchElectrochemical wizardry conjures nitrate at room temperature from air
Process could cut the huge carbon footprint of fertiliser production
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ResearchCold plasma converts biogas into long-chain hydrocarbon feedstocks
Waste gases from landfills could be turned into valuable chemical feedstocks
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ResearchWarning that solar geoengineering could cause unexpected regional heating
Aerosol modelling study injects note of caution on strategy to control warming
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ResearchEnergetically unfavourable Diels-Alder reaction driven by chemical fuel
Carbodiimide fuel powers rare, thermodynamically unpromising reaction between diene and dienophile
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ResearchMachine learning could ‘change the paradigm’ for polaritonic chemistry
Model reveals influence of vibrational strong coupling during light-driven reaction
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ResearchNew spray-on dyes can instantly reveal fingerprints at crime scenes
Fluorescent molecules are simple to use and non-toxic