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3 weeks ago |
cen.acs.org | Sam Lemonick
Carmakers are quickly adopting the newest generation of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are cheaper than their predecessors. But recycling lithium from the lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cathodes in these cells may not be economically viable using existing methods. A team of researchers says its new electrochemical approach could be a solution ( ACS Energy Letters, 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.5c01087).
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3 weeks ago |
harpswellanchor.org | Sam Lemonick
Harpswell resident James “Jim” Henderson, a lifelong public servant devoted to preserving Maine’s history and making it publicly accessible, died on April 18 at the age of 83. Henderson spent 20 years in charge of the Maine State Archives in Augusta, retiring in 2007. In retirement he continued work on a personal project called Maine: An Encyclopedia, an online compendium of the state’s people, places, animals and more that he started in 2001.
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1 month ago |
cen.acs.org | Sam Lemonick
"When I was applying for jobs, I had no idea there was a field of agrochemistry," Tejas Shah says. At the suggestion of his graduate adviser, Shah applied for an opening at what is now Corteva Agriscience, which makes chemicals for farming. He has spent the last decade with the company, where he created its first chemistry automation and high-throughput experimentation group and used computational tools to find a small-molecule herbicide with a new mode of action.
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1 month ago |
cen.acs.org | Sam Lemonick
This April, news reports linked the stinky gas dimethyl sulfide (DMS) in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet called K2-18b to possible life on it. The reports, prompted by work led by astronomer Nikku Madhusudhan of the University of Cambridge, were met by the public with considerable excitement-and by some other scientists by skepticism.
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2 months ago |
cen.acs.org | Sam Lemonick
The artificial intelligence-based structure-prediction software AlphaFold, originally developed by Google DeepMind, has quickly become an important tool for drug discovery. Its original iteration wowed scientists with its speed and accuracy in 2020, and two of its developers shared part of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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Very good news. ACS still has a massive amount of work to do if there's any chance of fixing the mess they made, but this seems like the right first step.

Good news https://t.co/LmUym4EXI5 via @cenmag

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