Ana Georgescu
@theanageorgescu.bsky.social
editorial fellow @C&EN ⚗️ https://cen.acs.org/
Researchers collected microscopic paint samples from the areas marked in purple on Diego Rivera’s Creation (1922–23) to analyze the mural’s binding medium. The team found evidence of copal resin but no detectable beeswax. #chemsky 🧪
New analysis rewrites the recipe for Rivera’s first mural
Researchers find the copal resin, but not the beeswax, Rivera described in his technique
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Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week: #chemsky 🧪
Business Watch: BioBTX moves on renewable aromatics; Scribe’s IPO is a hit
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week
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Chemistry is key to the success of current and future space missions: cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
Buying PolyPeptide will give Samsung Biologics new capability and expertise in peptides, a modality that has surged with the popularity of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) drugs for weight loss and that is being explored in oncology and other disease areas. #chemsky 🧪
Peptides are big, and Samsung Biologics is paying $1.8 billion to get in on the action
Planned acquisition of specialist PolyPeptide signals interest in peptides by drug outsourcing firms
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One of my all-time favorite projects, forever in love with salamanders and my three teammates 🦎
alexmegerle.bsky.social@alexmegerle.bsky.social · 2w agoAnd if you want extra amphibian visuals, click through to the mini documentary produced by myself, @theanageorgescu.bsky.social, Laura Martín Agudelo, and Lucie McCormick. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmt...
In a new study that pointed two radio telescopes at a molecular cloud, researchers detected erythrulose, a four-carbon monosaccharide that could have been transferred to minor bodies, such as comets and asteroids, and then delivered to younger planets such as the early Earth. #chemsky 🧪
Astronomers detect sugar in interstellar space for the first time
The discovery of erythrulose suggests that complex sugars can form on icy dust grains long before planets emerge
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🚀Space package launch is a go!🚀 @cenmag.bsky.social's physical sciences team has been working hard on this for over half a year and I'm so excited to finally show it to the world! cen.acs.org/physical-che...
To the moon, Mars, and beyond
Chemistry is key to the success of current and future space missions
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This moisture-activated battery can bend and stretch thanks to this pangolin-inspired design that packs individual battery cells closely together and absorbs mechanical strain via the battery’s interconnecting structures. cen.acs.org/materials/en... #chemsky 🧪
Researchers have designed a new ultrablack composite material made for automotive coating that absorbs nearly all light. #chemsky 🧪
Any color the customer wants, as long as it’s the blackest black
A new ultrablack coating for automotive and other applications combines carbon black and carbon nanotubes
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Scientists using NASA's Perseverance rover have detected complex organic carbon in rocks from Jezero Crater, adding to growing evidence that organic material can persist on Mars for billions of years. #chemsky 🧪
Ancient Martian rocks preserve complex organic carbon
The ‘Perseverance’ rover finds new clues to how organic material formed and persisted on the Red Planet
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What's going on with the water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? The situation is---well, murky--and many mysteries still remain. @theanageorgescu.bsky.social dauntlessly emailed a bunch of algae experts in search of a smidge of clarity:
Why the Reflecting Pool keeps turning green
Nitrogen, phosphorus, sunlight, and stagnant water can combine to create the perfect conditions for algal blooms
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Green with envy or green with algae? Writing for @cenmag.bsky.social, editorial fellow @theanageorgescu.bsky.social (with an assist from @bribarbu.bsky.social) goes deep on the chemistry of the reflecting pool. #chemsky🧪 cen.acs.org/environment/...
Why the Reflecting Pool keeps turning green
Nitrogen, phosphorus, sunlight, and stagnant water can combine to create the perfect conditions for algal blooms
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I see a black car and I want to paint it blacker? Please welcome @theanageorgescu.bsky.social to the @cenmag.bsky.social team, and enjoy her first story for us cen.acs.org/materials/na...
Any color the customer wants, as long as it’s the blackest black
A new ultrablack coating for automotive and other applications combines carbon black and carbon nanotubes
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@sevensugars.bsky.social hi Ashley, I'm a journalist with @cenmag.bsky.social, (also fellow fan of algae and gay pirates) would you have time for a chat?
Could your car run on #kelp? Great piece by Zoe Beketova & @theanageorgescu.bsky.social on the pitfalls & promise of #seaweed -based biofuels. #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑
MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing@mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe last installment of our collaboration with @apnews.com is now up. The story, by Zoe Beketova and @theanageorgescu.bsky.social, '26, dives into kelp biofuels: apnews.com/article/kelp... Thanks to Annika Hammerschlag, Peter Prengaman, and Alyssa Goodman for editing and mentoring
A lovely story by @apnews.com's climate desk on our recent collaboration: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ap-mit...
AP and MIT develop climate stories together
Hello and welcome to The Associated Press Climate newsletter. I’m Peter Prengaman, AP’s climate and environment news director.
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The last installment of our collaboration with @apnews.com is now up. The story, by Zoe Beketova and @theanageorgescu.bsky.social, '26, dives into kelp biofuels: apnews.com/article/kelp... Thanks to Annika Hammerschlag, Peter Prengaman, and Alyssa Goodman for editing and mentoring
Planes and ships could run on kelp someday, but there are serious hurdles
Kelp, a kind of seaweed, can be used in biofuels that one day could power ships and aircraft. That would sharply reduce the use of gas and oil, which emit greenhouse gases that lead to global warming.
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My latest story—a collab with my brilliant cohort-mate, Laura Martín Agudelo, and the awesome folks on the @apnews.com Climate & Environment team—explores a weather station in Massachusetts that still uses analog tools. Video: me + the sterling @joshuabickel.bsky.social apnews.com/article/weat...
One of America’s oldest weather observatories shows people the science behind our climate
At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885.
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Reported on everyone's favorite giant from this year's @aas.org meeting 🌟 #AAS247
Sky & Telescope@skyandtelescope.bsky.social · 7mo agoIn new observations, astronomers detect a moving wake of gas in the outer layers of the red supergiant Betelgeuse, offering fresh evidence for a long-suspected secondary star. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne... . . #astronomy #betelgeuse #binarystar
If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there. www.wired.com/story/china-...
Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing
If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.
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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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fat bear week this, federal duck stamp contest that. now mineral cup
Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social · 10mo ago#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...
there's a chill in the air, which only means one thing: it's time for white man murmuring music
Fundamentally the #Mars announcement NASA is making today boils down to: there could have been some chemical reactions in these ancient rocks that could have been mediated by living organisms. The word "could" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there. 🧪
I’ve learnt a lot of new things about the differences between Europe and the US in the past two years, but honestly the biggest surprise has been realizing that tuna pizza is not a thing in the US.
The GPSW is thrilled to announce our incoming Class of 2026! Welcome Laura Martin Agudelo, Zoe Beketova, @ashleydsouza.bsky.social, Ana Georgescu, Jamie Jiang, Lucie McCormick, Alex Megerle, and Julia Vaz. You can read about our new cohort here: sciwrite.mit.edu/faculty-and-...
Students - MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing
Class of 2026 Health, medicine
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Seven journalists are headed to grad school as 2025 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellows! Each will receive $6,000, thanks to the Brinson Foundation. Congrats to Bridget Balch, Alonso Daboub, Rachel Duckett, @ashleydsouza.bsky.social, Ana Georgescu, @stellamayerhoff.bsky.social & Alex Megerle. bit.ly/tbs2526
