In Japan, longstanding chemical makers adjust their focus
At UBE and Showa Denko, specialties become central
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Read MoreBeckers Group has reached an agreement to sell its Railway Coatings business to KANSAI HELIOS for an undisclosed sum.
Read MoreA satellite built for NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) to observe nearly all the water on our planet’s surface lifted off on its way to low-Earth orbit at 3:46 a.m. PST on Friday.
Read MoreA portion of the open cluster NGC 6530 appears as a roiling wall of smoke studded with stars in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Read MoreDrug overdoses in the United States have risen sharply in the last two decades. Nearly 92,000 people died from overdoses of illegal drugs and prescription opioids in 2020—more than five times the number of deaths in the year 2000—and synthetic opioids like fentanyl are one of the main culprits.
Read MoreScientists from St. Petersburg University together with their foreign colleagues have created the world’s first two-dimensional ferromagnetism in graphene. Use of the obtained magnetic state of graphene can become the basis of a new approach to electronics, increasing its energy efficiency and speed when developing devices using alternative technologies without the use of silicon.
Read MoreCreating new synthetic compounds is often a complex and multi-step process that can take years of research. Caleb D. Martin, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Baylor University and principal investigator of the Martin Research Group, and his team have developed a new compound known as tris(ortho-carboranyl)borane or BoCb3.
Read MoreI wrote here about the measurement of electric fields inside enzyme active sites, and now the same group has published two more papers in this area. Both of them focus on beta-lactam compounds as a test case. This paper is looking at covalent inhibitors of beta-lactamase enzymes, which are very important compounds. A classic one, […]
Read MoreJuno’s unprecedented views of Jupiter and its moons are a gift that keeps on giving. The NASA spacecraft was originally slated to end its mission in 2018 after completing 34 orbits of the giant planet. It’s now on orbit 47. How long scientists will get this front-row view of these worlds isn’t clear, particularly as […]
Read MoreMore liquid magma lurks beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano than scientists once thought. But don’t panic: That amount of magma, researchers say, is still nowhere near enough to portend an eruption any time soon. That reassurance comes courtesy of new state-of-the-art seismic images that give the sharpest picture yet of what lies beneath Yellowstone. “It’s like […]
Read MoreThe quake lasted four hours and identified layering in the crust that could indicate a meteoroid impact. The 4.7 magnitude temblor happened in May 2022 and released five times more energy than any previously recorded quake on Mars. Mapping the seismic activity on Mars will help inform scientists where and how to build structures to […]
Read MoreResearchers didn’t know what to make of sunken pieces of wood that were so thoroughly chewed-up by clams that the wood crumbled in their hands. It turns out, the super-chewer wood-eating clams had a secret weapon for forcing out other species. The clams, who have special adaptations that let them survive in dirty, low-oxygen water, […]
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