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Chemistry education moves from classroom to escape room
Chemistry teachers turn to puzzle-based activity to keep high school students engaged
3-D-printed yeast cubes could speed up alcohol and drug production
Lattices made of yeast-infused gels can continuously ferment glucose into ethanol for two weeks
New battery could serve the grid
Manganese-hydrogen design boasts high capacity, long life, and the promise of low cost
Let’s hear it from the ACS national meeting
More than 16,000 people showed up to the meeting in New Orleans. Here are a few of their stories
Testing how much trisubstituted amines can bulk up
Using a multitude of methods, chemists make unprecedented crowded alkyl amines; but one elusive target remains out of reach
Clear view of telomerase at last
Cryo-EM structure clarifies components of the enzyme’s two lobes
Miniaturized technique maximizes search space for new drugs
Method optimizes reaction conditions and protein-binding affinity using a few milligrams of material
Coaxing chiral products from an S<sub>N</sub>1 reaction
Quaternary stereocenters generated via combination of a chiral hydrogen-bond-donor catalyst and a Lewis acid
Artificial sweetener triggers metabolic changes in rats
Acesulfame potassium causes more metabolome changes than either glucose or aspartame
Mechanochemistry etches silicon one layer at a time
Scanning probe method may sharpen microfabrication dexterity
Cool fuel for hypersonic aircraft
Heat-absorbing reactions could enable a hydrocarbon propellant to double as a coolant
To monitor the health of cities’ residents, look no further than their sewers
Wastewater is a fount of information about the drugs and other compounds communities consume
Women shaping the cannabis industry
Female leaders in science and advocacy embrace the fast-growing business
Connecting the lab, down to the pipette
Linking lab instruments and managing their data were the talk of the Analytica trade show
