Chemistry, Nano & Materials

Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity

Yale Environment 360: The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during the Vietnam War half a century ago. By the middle of this century, it could be…

Realizing the STEP fusion dream will require cryogenic innovation at scale and at pace

Physics World: Deliver a UK prototype fusion energy plant, targeting 2040, and thereafter a sustainable, long-term pathway to the commercial viability of nuclear fusion. That’s the ambitious objective – and…

Stanford Gets $1.1 Billion for New Climate School From John Doerr

New York Times: John Doerr, one of the most successful venture capitalists in the history of Silicon Valley, is giving $1.1 billion to Stanford University to fund a school focused on climate change and sustainability. The gift, which Mr. Doerr is making…

Nanotechnology enables visualization of RNA structures at near-atomic resolution

PhysOrg: We live in a world made and run by RNA, the equally important sibling of the genetic molecule DNA. In fact, evolutionary biologists hypothesize that RNA existed and…