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A guide to securing your first research fellowship: what reviewers are looking for (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-25 | by Howorka | get Leuchtturm1917 A5 dotted notebook → | tags: ucl, research fellowship, early-career researchers

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Rudolph A. Marcus obituary: theoretical chemist who explained how electrons jump between molecules (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-19 | by Chan | tags: marcus theory, electron transfer, molécule

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Synthesis of pyrroles from isoxazoles by an O-to-C skeletal edit (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-19 | by Bracken | tags: isoxazole, pyrrole, skeletal editing

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1 small behavior change improves your brain chemistry, according to 201 studies (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: brain chemistry, acts of kindness, hormones

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Physicists Discover Previously Unknown Substance Born From Hiroshima Atomic Bombing (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-29 | tags: hiroshima, atomic bomb, physicists

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Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 5 to Be Your New ‘Everyday’ Assistant (cnet.com)

2026-07-24 | by Blake Stimac | tags: anthropic, claude opus 5, google

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Computational chemistry, Locally? My rant on SSH (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-21 | tags: university high performance computing, ssh, vpn

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PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-17 | tags: pennylane, quantum computing, quantum machine learning

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VC firm Chemistry is raising $500M for its second fund (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-07 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | tags: chemistry, firm, fund

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Chemistry Ventures is raising $500M for its second fund (techcrunch.com)

2026-07-07 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | get Chemistry Ventures Fund T-Shirt → | tags: chemistry, firm, fund

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Here’s why Slate changed the battery in its cheap EV truck (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-24 | by Tim De Chant | get Portable Battery Jump Starter → | tags: slate, ev truck, battery chemistry

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Using AI to improve a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-17 | get AI Reaction Optimization Kit → | tags: medicinal chemistry, reaction, chemistry

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AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-17 | get AI Chemistry Lab Kit → | tags: ai chemist, medicinal chemistry, reaction

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Cucurbituril-based anion-conducting membranes with supramolecular nanopores (feeds.nature.com)

2026-06-17 | by Xu | get Cucurbituril Membrane Kit → | tags: cucurbituril, nanoporous membranes, supramolecular chemistry

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The Download: cutting AC emissions, and nature’s drug designer (technologyreview.com)

2026-06-15 | by Thomas Macaulay | tags: solid-state cooling, ac emissions, tim cernak

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Making Claude a Chemist (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-14 | get Chemistry Lab Kit → | tags: anthropic, claude, nmr spectrum

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Gold keeps glittering courtesy of surface chemistry (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-29 | get Gold Plated Surface Chemistry Kit → | tags: gold, surface chemistry, nature.com

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Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-26 | tags: garden grove, chemical tank, chemistry

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Research Paper Warns That There’s a Massive Experiment at Work to Geoengineer the Earth’s Climate (futurism.com)

2026-05-23 | by Frank Landymore | get Climate Engineering Book → | tags: spacex, geoengineering, earth’s future

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Nearly half of the world’s Nature Index chemistry research is now done in China (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-20 | get Chemistry Research Book → | tags: china, nature index, chemistry research

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OpenAI Co-Founder Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic (slashdot.org)

2026-05-19 | get AI Safety & Ethics Book → | tags: openai, andrzej karpathy, anthropic

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StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace 'Lower-Value Human Capital' (slashdot.org)

2026-05-19 | get AI-Powered Workforce Automation Kit → | tags: standard chartered, human capital, chemistry

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25 years of chemistry that simply clicks (feeds.nature.com)

2026-05-06 | by Davis | get Molecular Model Kit → | tags: click chemistry, sharpless, nobel prize

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A chemistry lab that runs itself to find the perfect reaction (feeds.nature.com)

2026-04-27 | get Automated Chemistry Lab Kit → | tags: chemistry lab, reaction optimization, nature.com

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Tiny Robots Reveal Hidden Ocean Chemistry in Low-Oxygen Waters (gizmodo.com)

2026-04-07 | get Underwater Microbot Kit → | tags: tiny robots, ocean chemistry, robotic floats

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Jupiter's Lightning May Have the Force of Nuclear Weapons (slashdot.org)

2026-03-29 | by Posted | tags: jupiter, lightning, nuclear weapons

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What Made Bell Labs So Successful? (slashdot.org)

2026-03-29 | by Posted | get Bell Labs Innovation Kit → | tags: bell labs, chemistry, physics

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Show HN: PeriodicTableOfElements.org (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-29 | get Periodic Table Poster → | tags: periodic table, elements, chemistry

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Direct conversion from alkenes to alkynes (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-16 | by Meng | get Alkyne Synthesis Kit → | tags: alkynes, organic chemistry, selenanthrene

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Breakout Ventures raises $114M fund to back AI science startups (techcrunch.com)

2026-03-11 | by Dominic-Madori Davis | get AI Science Startups → | tags: biology, chemistry, thiel foundation