11+ hour, 15+ min ago  (504+ words) Fabricating the chips that make artificial intelligence possible provides opportunities for chemists and society Opinion pieces from C&EN staff addressing core issues in chemistry. Three companies tend to get top billing when pundits talk about the physical underpinning of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (304+ words) The new method may help further characterize and utilize previously difficult membrane proteins David Baker’s research team at the Institute for Protein Design has unveiled a new technique for sequestering membrane proteins (Science 2026, DOI: 10.1126/science.adr3817). Proteins bound in cell membranes…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (1770+ words) A slew of start-ups and academic labs are leaning on AI agents and bots, rather than humans, to speed up their chemistry Recurring stories and special news packages from C&EN. Atinary has raised at least $10 million in outside investment…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (248+ words) Good scientists reveal how they do their experiments and report their results; so should any machine-driven research by John Trant, special to C&EN Commentary on issues of enduring interest to the chemistry community, written by experts. Artificial intelligence and…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (108+ words) The collaboration will focus on creating high-quality datasets for AI models Artificial intelligence company Google DeepMind and Google.org have announced a new partnership with the UK’s Wellcome Sanger Institute to build high-quality genomic datasets, which will form the basis…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (203+ words) Lundbeck scientists will use Cradle’s artificial intelligence software for 2 programs The Danish pharmaceutical company Lundbeck has tapped the artificial intelligence firm Cradle to help develop two antibodies to treat neurological disorders. Scientists at Lundbeck will use Cradle’s AI software to…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (616+ words) Cost varies across paper mills, but the least expensive one is in India, according to a new analysis of social media advertisements by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, special to C&EN The average cost of buying the first-author slot on a…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (237+ words) The tool was designed for science The latest news in meetings, awards, governance, ACS publishing, and more. “We don't look at Newton as just pure AI, right? Newton is a marriage of AI and peer-reviewed, proven science. And only CAS…...

11+ mon, 3+ week ago  (620+ words) Microsoft researchers used deep learning to create new DFT model by Sam Lemonick, special to C&EN When experiments are impractical, density functional theory (DFT) calculations can give researchers accurate approximations of chemical properties. The mathematical equations that underpin the…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (691+ words) New bibliometric tool combs through scientific literature, patents, and grants to forecast future impact, but experts disagree about its usefulness by Dalmeet Singh Chawla, special to C&EN Recurring stories and special news packages from C&EN. “You need and…...