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A ghostly forest of stone towers may hold Earth’s oldest chemistry for life

“This is an example of a type of ecosystem that could be active on Enceladus or Europa right this second,” microbiologist William Brazelton told Anna Kusmer of The Smithsonian in 2018. The towers of ...
CNN

Opinion: This fired chemistry professor’s example shows what’s wrong with academia

The basic outline is this: According to an article in the New York Times, Maitland Jones Jr. is one of the nation’s top organic chemistry professors. He was tenured at Princeton, wrote an influential ...
The University of Chicago Chronicle

UChicago chemists make breakthrough in drug discovery chemistry

For years, if you asked the people working to create new pharmaceutical drugs what they wished for, at the top of their lists would be a way to easily replace a carbon atom with a nitrogen atom in a ...
C&EN

Skeletal editing: How close are we to true cut-and-paste chemistry?

As a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, Mark Levin started sketching out ideas for how to do something no chemist had ever managed before: swapping one of the carbon atoms in ...