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Chemistry
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The missing atom. How a catalyst defect turns plastic into an amino acid
Singapore's Ning Yan team showed that a missing sulfur atom — long seen as a flaw — turns PLA plastic into the amino acid alanine: 4.95 mmol/g/h at 70°C, twice the previous best.
2026-08-15
BIOTECHNOLOGY
AI versus superbugs. 40 peptides, 25 hits
Yeji Wang's team from Shandong University used a diffusion model to generate 40 new antimicrobial peptides from scratch. 25 worked. Two have been tested on mice. AI has just solved the most expensive step in antibiotic discovery.
2026-08-11
CHEMISTRY
One robot instead of a laboratory. The AI chemist just got a job
The first fully autonomous, multi-agent AI chemist completed six real-world wet experiments, from MOF network synthesis to Suzuki reaction optimization. Llama-3.1-70B on-premises, no cloud.
2026-08-01