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Infographic on fly agaric mushrooms, with an image of the mushrooms in the middle (red with white spots). The chemical structures of the mushroom's pigments are shown, including muscarufin, the primary pigment responsible for their red colour. The compounds behind the mushrooms' psychoactive properties, ibotenic acid and muscimol, are also shown. These compounds imitate neurotransmitters in the brain to exert their effects.

It's mushroom season in the Northern Hemisphere 🍄

Here's a look at the chemistry of arguably the most iconic mushroom, fly agaric, and what makes them so brightly coloured and hallucinogenic: www.compoundchem.com/2024/11/11/f...

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Overlooked No More: Violeta Parra, Folk ‘Genius’ Who Redefined Latin American Music

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Cars to Fighter Jets: China’s New Export Curbs May Level a Heavy Blow Worldwide

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FeMoco for the win!

Monica Olvera de la Cruz brings chemical simulations into the real world This researcher unites theoretical and experimental science using physics, biology, and chemistry

Monica Olvera de la Cruz brings chemical simulations into the real world

This computational chemist unites theoretical and experimental science using physics, biology, and chemistry. #HispanicHeritageMonth

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Eusebio Juaristi has spent a career thinking about molecules in 3D This physical organic chemist has also contributed to the development of organic chemistry in Latin America

Eusebio Juaristi has spent a career thinking about molecules in 3D

This physical organic chemist has also contributed to the development of organic chemistry in Latin America.

#HispanicHeritageMonth
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

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MacArthur Foundation Announces 2025 ‘Genius Grant’ Winners

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How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

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Opinion | How the Manosphere Hijacks Young Men’s Interest in Science

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Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

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Wednesday vibes #Veracruz
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He got an entire country running on clean energy. Can he do it again? Ramón Méndez Galain helped Uruguay decarbonize its grid in just five years, with 98 percent of its energy coming from renewable sources.

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Moon helium deal is biggest purchase of natural resources from space The feasibility of moon mining is not yet proven, but the future of supercomputing may depend on the ability to extract Helium-3 from the lunar surface.

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Super cool and interesting story!

Successful Meissner test of YBa2Cu3O7 superconductor made in our senior inorganic chem lab today #proflife

Trailblazers: Chemists with disabilities rethink how we do science C&EN’s 2025 Trailblazers issue, curated by guest editor Mona Minkara, looks at how chemists can solve problems in new ways

It so was hard to imagine having successful career in science as a disabled PhD student that eventually I just left.

Who could have guessed that years later I would help create a magazine issue dedicated to highlighting Trailblazing disabled chemists!

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#DisabledInSTEM

C&EN's 2024 Trailblazers

To celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth, we are highlighting stories of chemists with Latin American roots. Read more about C&EN’s Trailblazers: cen.acs.org/careers/dive... #HHM #chemsky 🧪

Alkaline Earth-Based Ternary Chalcogenide Nanocrystals: Cadmium- and Lead-Free Optical Materials As some of the most abundant elements on the Earth’s crust, alkaline earths bear great potential in Cd- and Pb-free catalytic, energy conversion, and light-emitting devices. Further, because large ele...

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The Capital of Electric Cars Is Turning to Electric Planes

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ACS Spring - American Chemical Society Join the ACS Spring Meeting in Atlanta, GA or online from March 22–26, 2026. Explore thousands of scientific presentations, expand your network, attend professional development courses, and discover t...

ACS Spring 2026 to be held at Atlanta, GA. Call for abstracts open until end of this month.

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Opinion | Changing Clouds May Tell Us Something About Climate Change Clouds are changing, and we need to find out if it’s just temporary or from global warming.

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Morocco is now a trade and manufacturing powerhouse The country’s ports and factories are humming

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