2021
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- Wastewater helps decipher the popularity of new synthetic drugs
- Wearable sensor measures airborne nicotine exposure from e-cigarettes
- Shape-morphing microrobots deliver drugs to cancer cells (video) *Instant Replay*
- There鈥檚 gold in seawater!! Can we extract it? (video)
- Making apple spirits taste better
- Toward one drug to treat all coronaviruses *Instant Replay*
- We tried to preserve a strawberry forever. Things got 鈥� ugly (video)
- The carbon footprint of 鈥榙elivering the goods鈥� with robots and automated vehicles
- Leaky sewers are likely responsible for large amounts of medications in streams
- Recent advances in triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs)
- Toward a COVID-19 breathalyzer for kids
- Hybrid cars are twice as vulnerable to supply chain issues as gas-powered models *Instant Replay*
- A protein-based COVID-19 vaccine that mimics the shape of the virus
- Treating the 鈥榬oot鈥� cause of baldness with a dissolvable microneedle patch
- Indian research firms expand their reach
- How the mold influences a chocolate bar鈥檚 crystalline structure *Instant Replay*
- SARS-CoV-2 protease cuts human proteins; possible link to COVID-19 symptoms
- Bacteria-sized robots take on microplastics and win by breaking them down
- Honeybees鈥� hairy abdomens show how to save energy, reduce wear on materials
- Personalized sweat sensor reliably monitors blood glucose without finger pricks *Instant Replay*
- Ultrafast, on-chip PCR could speed diagnosis during current and future pandemics
- How the mold influences a chocolate bar鈥檚 crystalline structure
- Stormwater could be a large source of microplastics and rubber fragments to waterways
- Residential coal use in China results in many premature deaths, models indicate
- Two compounds can make chocolate smell musty and moldy *Instant Replay*
- Magnetically propelled cilia power climbing soft robots and microfluidic pumps (video)
- Tampons, sanitary napkins could diagnose yeast infections with color-changing threads
- Porous, ultralow-temperature supercapacitors could power Mars, polar missions
- Reducing salt in Parmigiano Reggiano cheese might not negatively affect its flavor *Instant Replay*
- Pressure sensors could ensure a proper helmet fit to help protect the brain
- Double-duty catalyst generates hydrogen fuel while cleaning up wastewater
- An mRNA vaccine for cancer immunotherapy
- A mild way to upcycle plastics used in bottles into fuel and other high-value products *Instant Replay*
- Celebrating Black chemists and chemical engineers
- An intelligent soft material that curls under pressure or expands when stretched (video)
- Reducing salt in Parmigiano Reggiano cheese might not negatively affect its flavor
- Juicing technique could influence healthfulness of fresh-squeezed juice *Instant Replay*
- Why banana candy doesn鈥檛 taste like banana (video)
- Edible holograms could someday decorate foods
- Making swimming pools safer by reducing chlorine disinfection byproducts
- Termite gut microbes could aid biofuel production
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