When I'm cooking pancakes I place 3 around the edges, but then the center of the pan gets too hot for lack of pancake, so I place just one there on its own in the next round. "This is why there are s and p orbitals," I think to myself.
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I always wondered if this kind of gravity battery was possible. They are! I always imagined this on a dystopian future where people need to hide in bunkers, but this will do boingboing.net/2026/07/06/p...
China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete
A 148-meter tower in Jiangsu stores 100 MWh by hoisting 35-ton concrete blocks with surplus wind power.
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A tonne of discarded smartphones contains more gold than a tonne of ore from an actual gold mine.
Companies (including "fancy ones" like Prada) make bags from old fishing nets. The thing is, nylon can be broken down to its base molecules and rebuilt into new nylon over and over, without ever losing quality. A rare case of truly recyclable, circular chem tech!
🌎 🌡️The world's oceans just experienced their hottest June on record and could set fresh highs in the months ahead as El Nino and climate change drive temperatures even higher, scientists said on Wednesday ➡️ u.afp.com/SKpq
A distillery in Brooklyn called Air Company makes vodka from carbon dioxide captured out of the air, instead of fermenting it from grain. It's chemically identical to normal vodka, but you're basically drinking air. Stale air. You're killing brain cells with futuristic liquid stale air.
Atinary and Radical are just two of a growing number of start-ups that are raising massive amounts of venture capital to develop labs where AI and bots run the show. cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
still thinking about the greatest wikipedia article ever written
Disappearing polymorph - Wikipedia
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words@words.bsky.social · 2mo agoTIL mysterious atmospheric seed crystals that disrupt existing chemical production facilities by spontaneously making it impossible to manufacture a certain form of a drug and that being a factor in subsequent IP battles in pharma manufacturing is a thing
![Form II was of sufficiently lower energy that it became impossible to produce Form I in any laboratory where Form II was introduced, even indirectly. Scientists who had been exposed to Form II in the past seemingly contaminated entire manufacturing plants by their presence, probably because they carried over microscopic seed crystals of the new polymorph.[3] The drug was temporarily](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:plvxn2kpjuseoftweoo4xtag/bafkreicvlnfpu66zxvro2wx6hwzqkz6c5y7p4vnxzoqtqqa5vu4776kgqe)
A lot of what industry calls "chemical recycling" is really just pyrolysis, and most of the output gets burned as fuel. Calling that recycling is a bit like setting your room on fire and calling it cleaning up.
There are almost no crustaceans in the deep ocean. Not because they would get crushed, but because they would DISSOLVE. The cold & high pressure cause changes to water that make it very corrosive to calcium carbonate shells. But there's one crustacean who solves this problem with ALUMINUM ARMOR.
Super groovy article on how creating an ASL vocabulary for chemistry not only super helps deaf learners but might even be useful for hearing ones as well! https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-new-signs-bringing-greater-understanding-to-organic-chemistry/4020582.article
The new signs bringing greater understanding to organic chemistry | Feature | Chemistry World
Rebecca Trager speaks to a US team developing a sign language lexicon for chemistry concepts that combines form with meaning to make the field more accessible for everyone
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InCycling (Berlin): Software Engineer Java (w/m/d)
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WE DON'T NEED PETROLEUM-BASED PLASTICS ANYMORE! "The [bamboo plastic] outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics in mechanical and thermo-mechanical metrics while maintaining full biodegradability in soil within 50 days and closed-loop recyclability with 90% retained strength."
High-strength, multi-mode processable bamboo molecular bioplastic enabled by solvent-shaping regulation - Nature Communications
Bioplastics derived from biomass show promise as sustainable alternatives to petrochemical plastics, but their adoption is hindered by their inferior mechanical properties and processability. Here, th...
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How are plastics recycled and how do the recycling rates of different plastics compare? This 2012 edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social takes a look: cen.acs.org/environment/...
Ahem, back to the topic: We are also hiring! If you are a mid- or junior- DE, or a DS who wants to become a DE, and you're in Berlin, and you're not afraid of chemistry (one way or another) - please do apply! Let's save the planet together (at least a tiny bit, for a start)!
InCycling (Berlin): Data Engineer / Analytics Engineer (w/m/d)
InCycling GmbH has a job opening for Data Engineer / Analytics Engineer (w/m/d) in Berlin (published: 09.04.2026). Apply now or check the other available jobs.
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We're hiring in Berlin! The first Data Engineer to join the company, junior or early-senior applicants welcome, background in chemistry or pharma is a huge plus! Let's make this world a better place together!
InCycling (Berlin): Data Engineer / Analytics Engineer (w/m/d)
InCycling GmbH has a job opening for Data Engineer / Analytics Engineer (w/m/d) in Berlin (published: 09.04.2026). Apply now or check the other available jobs.
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A team of 37 partners is tasked with boosting a series of startups at a courtyard on Chausseestraße in Berlin-Mitte, Berlin's "Silicon Avenue". The joint venture "Just Unite to Innovate" (Juni) hopes to quickly put Berlin's small startups on the path to success.
Ein Hinterhof an Berlins „Silicon Allee“ : Ein Team im Auftrag von 37 Partnern soll hier reihenweise Start-ups pimpen
An der Chausseestraße in Berlin-Mitte hat das Gemeinschaftsunternehmen Just Unite to Innovate („Juni“) eine Loft-Etage bezogen. Die Aufgabe: Sie sollen Berlins kleine Start-ups schnell auf Erfolgskurs...
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Can AI become a powerful new tool for chemistry? A PNAS Special Feature explores how machine learning is transforming drug design, materials discovery, and molecular prediction, while also exploring the challenges that limit broader adoption. Read the blog post: https://ow.ly/YZvz50XR9JC
In my @nature.com story, I explain how chemists at Yale have created a chemistry AI tool by fine-turning the LLAMA LLM to create 2,498 expert models. Their system can judge which of the different experts to refer a query about reaction conditions to. Impressive! 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This AI has chemical expertise — and helps synthesize 35 new compounds
An open-source program helps researchers bypass a major bottleneck in the process chemical synthesis.
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A multi-agent AI framework uses knowledge graphs to accelerate the search for sustainable PFAS-free materials in biomedical applications, improving hypothesis generation through cross-domain insights. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07491
GraphAgents: Knowledge Graph-Guided Agentic AI for Cross-Domain Materials Design
ArXiv link for GraphAgents: Knowledge Graph-Guided Agentic AI for Cross-Domain Materials Design
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Why not reward the circular economy, esp in construction, w/ tax breaks? Incl at the fed level: “Sheida Shahi founded the company in 2022 to help the building and construction industry reduce its environmental impact. Its primary product is an AI-powered www.thestar.com/business/mar...
This Toronto startup ensures buildings don’t end up as landfill
Canada generates 4 million tons of construction waste a year. Adaptis helps building managers salvage and reuse materials while also reducing carbon emissions.
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The pharmaceutical industry has a crucial role in modern healthcare, but it also has a significant environmental footprint. Growing environmental concerns emphasize the importance of sustainability, putting pressure on industries to adopt more responsible manufacturing practices.
What Pharma Needs to Know About Green Chemistry
The pharmaceutical industry faces environmental challenges. Green chemistry offers sustainable solutions to reduce waste and enhance drug discovery processes.
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Recently, LLMs were found to encode different languages similarly, a sort of Platonic representation of words. It now extends to science:: 60 ML models for molecules, materials & proteins (all with different training) converge toward similar encoding of molecular structure arxiv.org/pdf/2512.03750
By recycling the gases passing through a pyrolysis reactor, researchers have demonstrated a more efficient way to convert methane to high-quality carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and clean hydrogen compared with current methods. cen.acs.org/synthesis/pr... #chemsky 🧪
Gas looping boosts efficiency of carbon nanotube production
Methane pyrolysis reactor recycles process gases to improve output of nanotubes and hydrogen
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When properly managed, wastewater can turn into clean water, energy, and other valuable resources, providing benefits #ForPeopleForPlanet. The Global Wastewater Initiative works to shift the view of wastewater—from waste to a valuable asset: https://ow.ly/onEt50XMaJl
📰 New article by Avinash Erupaka, Radhika Kashyap, Modood Alvi How Bayer transforms Pharma R&D with a cloud-based data science ecosystem using Amazon SageMaker #AWS #BigData
How Bayer transforms Pharma R&D with a cloud-based data science ecosystem using Amazon SageMaker
In this post, we discuss how Bayer AG used the next generation of Amazon SageMaker to build a cloud-based Pharma R&D Data Science Ecosystem (DSE) that unified data ingestion, storage, analytics, and AI/ML workflows.
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🇷🇴 Romania creates the largest deposit-return recycling scheme in the world! Their plastic bottle collection scheme has taken them from one of the lowest recycling rates in the EU to upto 94% collection in just two years, with more than 500,000 tonnes of high-quality recyclable materials collected.
Recycling e-waste not only reduces pollution but also helps recover essential raw materials needed for a clean energy future. Better recycling and reuse could decrease the need for new mining by up to 10% by 2050. Read more: www.unep.org/resources/re...
