2017
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- ‘Stressed out’ cocoa trees could produce more flavorful chocolate
- Bioelectronic ‘nose’ can detect food spoilage by sensing the smell of death
- Diesel vehicles in oil sands operations contribute to regional pollution
- Nicotine’s hold: What the gut and gender have to do with it *Instant Replay*
- Screening chemicals in everyday products for safety – without animals
- Preventing psoriasis with vanillin
- Getting a better handle on methane emissions from livestock
- To improve dipstick diagnostic and environmental tests, just add tape
- Insights from a rare genetic disease may help treat multiple myeloma *Instant Replay*
- Toward safer, longer-lasting batteries for electronics and vehicles
- Jellyfish-inspired electronic skin glows when it gets hurt
- Nicotine’s hold: What the gut and gender have to do with it
- Saliva proteins could explain why some people overuse salt
- Olive mill wastewater transformed: From pollutant to bio-fertilizer, biofuel *Instant Replay*
- Brexit fallout: An uncertain future for academic scientists
- Some infant rice cereals contain elevated levels of methylmercury
- Triclosan accumulates in toothbrushes, potentially prolonging users’ exposure
- Insights from a rare genetic disease may help treat multiple myeloma
- Self-folding electronics could enable advanced robotics (video) *Instant Replay*
- Pesky pollutants that persist, courtesy of nature
- How a ‘Star Wars’ parody turned into a tool for scientific discovery (video)
- Battling flames increases firefighters’ exposure to carcinogens
- A fashionable chemical and biological threat detector-on-a-ring
- Substance in coffee delays onset of diabetes in laboratory mice *Instant Replay*
- Is 3-D printing living up to the hype?
- Smokers who quit have metabolite levels that resemble those of nonsmokers
- Cell phone data coupled with sewage testing show drug use patterns
- Ensuring broccoli sprouts retain their cancer-fighting compounds
- Going green with plant-based resins *Instant Replay*
- Chemists speak out on sexual harassment in academia
- Personalized ‘earable’ sensor monitors body temperature in real time
- Longer-lasting fragrance is just a shampoo away, thanks to peptides
- NanoVelcro microchips could someday noninvasively diagnose prenatal conditions
- Real-time vapor analysis could improve training of explosive-detecting dogs
- New law could shore up US helium supply
- Swimming microbots can remove pathogenic bacteria from water (video)
- Real-time vapor analysis could improve training of explosive-detecting dogs
- Plant inspiration could lead to flexible electronics
- What bone proteomics could reveal about the dead *Instant Replay*
- Improving Chinese air pollution leads to business opportunities
- First dual-targeting nanoparticles lower cancer’s defenses and attack tumors
- Polar bears’ declining mercury levels likely due to climate-related shifts
- New sensors could enable more affordable detection of pollution and diseases
- Why a crackly crust is essential to a baguette’s aroma and taste *Instant Replay*
- US textile industry returning to life
- Bacteria from cystic fibrosis patient could help thwart antibiotic-resistant TB
- Beetles spark development of color-changing nanoparticles for commercial use
- Gluten-free beer from Witkop teff grains
- Keeping cool in the summer leads to increased air pollution *Instant Replay*
- First CRISPR crop could debut in 2020
- Detecting bloodstains — with an antimalarial compound
- Feather-light metal cathodes for stable lithium-oxygen batteries *Instant Replay*
- Sugar sponges sop up and release glucose as needed
- Synthetic two-sided gecko’s foot could enable underwater robotics *Instant Repaly*
- Searching beyond graphene for new wonder materials
- Paper test strip could help heart failure patients monitor their condition at home
- Sorghum health food sweetener and now clothing dye
- What bone proteomics could reveal about the dead
- Degradable electronic components created from corn starch *Instant Replay*
- Chemical Safety Board faces uncertain future
- Nanoparticles can travel from lungs to blood, possibly explaining risks to heart
- Water-repellant material sheds like a snake when damaged (video)
- Turning chicken poop and weeds into biofuel
- ‘Lab-on-a-glove’ could bring nerve-agent detection to a wearer’s fingertips (video) *Instant Replay*
- March for Science draws hundreds of thousands of supporters across the globe
- Degradable electronic components created from corn starch
- Making artificial blood for transfusions
- Neonicotinoids detected in drinking water in agricultural area *Editor's Choice*
- Jackfruit seeds could help ease looming cocoa bean shortage *Instant Replay*
- Undocumented, would-be scientists face uncertain future in U.S.
- Analysis yields clues to chemical composition, natural aging of 100-year-old beer
- How to measure potentially damaging free radicals in cigarette smoke
- Painting fingernails with silver and gold
- See-through heating pad could help prevent burns from thermotherapy (video) *Instant Replay*
- The search for obesity drugs targets hunger’s complex chemistry
- Sea urchin spines could fix bones
- ‘Lab-on-a-glove’ could bring nerve-agent detection to a wearer’s fingertips (video)
- Scientists partner with Google Earth Outreach to analyze methane leaks in U.S. cities
- How depression can muddle thinking *Instant Replay*
- Accounting for sex differences in biomedical research
- Antimicrobial substances identified in Komodo dragon blood
- See-through heating pad could help prevent burns from thermotherapy (video)
- Some marine creatures may be more resilient to future, harsher ocean conditions than expected
- Harnessing the energy of fireworks for fuel *Instant Replay*
- Critters, plants and waste offer a more sustainable supply of catalysts
- Commercial weight-loss drug could help treat opioid addiction
- Nanoparticle fertilizer could contribute to new ‘green revolution’
- Passing the chemical Turing test: Making artificial and real cells talk
- Looking for life in all the right places — with the right tool *Instant Replay*
- Recycling yogurt waste to produce electricity, nutrients and more dairy foods
- Some fast-food packaging contains potentially harmful fluorinated compounds
- A cheaper way to make a WHO-designated essential medicine
- Peacock colors inspire greener way to dye clothes
- Red cabbage microgreens lower ‘bad’ cholesterol in animal study *Instant Replay*
- What to expect from big pharma in 2017
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