Unlike wine, which generally improves with time, beer does not age well. Usually within a year of bottling, the beverage starts to develop an unpleasant…
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Credit: The American Chemical Society Will cryogenically freezing yourself and coming back to life ever be reality? When you die, there are a lot of…
Don’t let their cuteness fool you – these animals are not to be messed with. This week Reactions breaks down the chemistry behind what makes…
In this episode of American Chemical Society Reactions, they head to Portland, Oregon, to learn how blacksmithing is just as much chemistry as it is…
A stretchable light-emitting device becomes an epidermal stopwatch. Credit: Adapted from ACS Materials Letters 2019, DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.9b00376. Imagine a runner who doesn’t need to carry…
Tiny, self-propelled robots could someday be used to clean up radioactive waste. Credit: American Chemical Society According to some experts, nuclear power holds great promise…
Researchers have developed compound lenses inspired by the mosquito eye. Credit: American Chemical Society Anyone who’s tried to swat a pesky mosquito knows how quickly…
Skin from mice treated with exosomes (right) had shallower wrinkles after UV exposure than untreated mice (left). Scale bar, 100 μm. Credit: Adapted from ACS…
Nature has evolved a dazzling array of materials that help organisms thrive in diverse habitats. Sometimes, scientists can exploit these designs to develop useful materials…
Silicone pet tags, seen here in purple, helped researchers measure housecats’ exposure to flame retardants. Credit: Environmental Science & Technology 2019 Feline hyperthyroidism is the…
Have you ever thought about how strange it is that dogs eat these dry, weird-smelling bits of food for their entire lives and never get…
Surface atoms on a dust particle (shown in red, white, pink and yellow) impose an arrangement on water molecules (blue) that can promote or inhibit…
Proteins are good for building muscle, but their building blocks also might be helpful for building sustainable organic batteries that could someday be a viable…
Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer that has been increasing in the U.S. for the past 30 years. Nearly 100,000 new cases of…