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What Does “Cisgender” Really Mean? A Simple Guide to Gender, Sexuality, and Privilege

The word “cisgender” is often used online — but few people stop to ask what it actually means. At its core, cisgender simply describes someone whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned ...

Generation of harmful slow electrons in water is a race between intermolecular energy decay and proton transfer

When high-energy radiation interacts with water in living organisms, it generates particles and slow-moving electrons that ...

Nobel chemistry prize awarded for crystal materials that could revolutionise green technology

The metal-organic frameworks discovered by the three scientists are helping to revolutionise green technology and many other ...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Architects of Metal-Organic Frameworks

The prize was awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi for the development of an architecture that some ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Architects of a New Kind of Molecular Structure Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Metal-organic frameworks can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny space—enabling advances that could help humans fight climate ...
Scientific American

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy and Clean Up the Environment

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing “metal-organic ...

Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery that could trap C02 and bring water to deserts

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for their development of new molecular ...
The Roanoke TimesOpinion

VT Science Corner: When it comes to molecules, we’re still learning left from right

Much like your hands, many molecules have left and right versions. These pairs of molecules — named “chiral” from the Greek ...

Chemical language models don't need to understand chemistry, study demonstrates

Language models are now also being used in the natural sciences. In chemistry, they are employed, for instance, to predict ...
eLife

Dynamic Architecture of Mycobacterial Outer Membranes Revealed by All-Atom Simulations

Using all-atom simulations of model mycomembranes, the work reports compelling structural insights into how α-mycolic acids and outer leaflet lipids (PDIM and PAT) shape membrane organisation. The ...