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Researchers found a four-carbon sugar called erythrulose in a cloud of gas and dust at the center of the Milky Way (Spitzer Space Telescope image shown here).Credit: NASA, Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC, Caltech) Call it an extra sweet discovery. Astronomers have detected a sugar molecule swirling within a cloud of gas and dust near the
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Chemist Omar Yaghi accepted a full-time position as a researcher at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to take a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new artificial intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute. Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
Chemistry Ventures, the venture capital firm launched two years ago by Bessemer alumni Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz, is raising $500 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing. Founded by Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, Chemistry launched with a $350 million fund and invests in early-stage startups building development tools,
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Combining lasers and sharks may sound like a bad idea, but marine ecologists are banking on it to help save some of the planet’s most threatened species. By merging optical technology and geochemistry, a group of researchers in Australia