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The Truth About Nylon: Plastic or Something Else?
To get (C12H22N2O2)n, which is the chemical formula of nylon 6/6 (the most common type of nylon), you need to get diamine acid from petroleum. Manufacturers then combine diamine acid (chemically ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has detected the largest organic (carbon-containing) molecules ever found on the red planet. The ...
Beyond the Periodic Table’s Edge: Scientists Unravel New Chemistry for Heavy Elements
Heavy ligands such as polyoxometalates are opening a new frontier in actinide chemistry. Studying materials that are both ...
'Democratizing chemical analysis': Using machine learning and robotics to identify chemical compositions from images
Florida State University chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried ...
Active compounds in Piper longum fruits show potential for functional foods and medicine
Mature or nearly mature fruits of Piper longum are used as a spice, valued for their commercial and industrial applications, ...
Curiosity rover makes ‘arguably the most exciting organic detection to date on Mars’
The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.
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12 drug candidates debut in San Diego
BMS-986458 features three stereocenters, one of which epimerizes easily, Mortensen said. The drug candidate, which would be ...
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A differentiable Gillespie algorithm for simulating chemical kinetics, parameter estimation, and designing synthetic biological circuits
A differentiable variant of the Gillespie algorithm enables gradient-based optimization for stochastic chemical kinetics, facilitating efficient parameter estimation and the design of biochemical ...