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Satellite data reveal that diesel trucking drives US air pollution inequality
Analysis of data from 52 major cities shows lower diesel traffic reduces NO<sub>2</sub> exposure inequality along racial, ethnic, and economic lines
How to interpret new studies on coronavirus variants
As new variants continue to pop up around the globe, here's how to understand what the emerging research means for public health
Sugar structure sleuth Sébastien Vidal is on a mission to fix errors in the scientific literature
The organic chemist has found structure mistakes in 350 papers over 8 years
Machine-learning approach predicts RNA structures
Neural network learns key RNA characteristics from 3D coordinates and element types
RNA delivered using a retooled retrovirus
Researchers hope that a viral protein hidden in our DNA could become a useful tool for therapeutic gene editing
Hurricane Ida slams the US Gulf Coast
The major storm took direct aim at the region's chemical producers
Crafting polymer composites in one step with light
Finely tuned light intensity and well-placed masks let researchers arrange nanoparticles just so
Delta-8-THC craze concerns chemists
Unidentified by-products and lack of regulatory oversight spell trouble for cannabis products synthesized from CBD
Flexible MXene coatings stay put on any surface
Messy layer cake of MXenes and polymers is key for robust coatings that could enable novel energy storing and sensing devices
Periodic Graphics: What are the risks of radon?
Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning explains how radon can waft into our homes and what risks the radioactive element poses.
CRISPR is inefficient. Targeting a DNA repair protein could help.
Inhibiting DNA repair may improve CRISPR-Cas9 experiments
