Chemical

Science & Nature A research group led by Associate Professor Takashi Kikuchi and Professor Wei Li from the Department of Pharmacognosy at the Faculty...

Science & Nature The requirement for C2H2 concentrations below 2 parts per million (ppm) in gas streams for C2H4 polymerization necessitates its semihydrogenation to...

Water has made the Earth the planet that it is—a planet known for its blue oceans. Water shapes the land through erosion and is fundamental to Earth's ability to support life. But we have a hard time understanding exactly how Earth ended up with all this water, as the building blocks that created it were

Flowers emit scent chemicals called volatile organic compounds, or VOCs. Now, a Purdue University team has published a paper in Nature Communications identifying for the first time a protein that plays a key role in helping petunias emit floral volatiles. Natalia Dudareva, who led the study, and collaborator John Morgan had suggested that molecular processes

Science & Nature A chemical scissor–mediated protocol enables structural and chemical editing of MAX phases and MXenes...Read MoreElroy Kazmierczak

Science & Nature Volatile pheromones offer a means to control flies that spread disease...Read MoreMargarett Latson

From left to right: Tim Johnson, Hunter Knox, and Harry Miley bring together different perspectives to better detect underground nuclear explosions. Credit: Composite image by Shannon Colson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory If an underground explosion occurs anywhere in the world, there is a good chance that a seismologist can pinpoint it. However, they won't necessarily