Providing students with multimodal content can increase student learning, but creating such material can be costly and time consuming. In this episode, Oliver Steinbock joins us to discuss how he has ...

Dried droplet deposits encode compositional information through evaporation-driven self-organization, offering a potential low-cost sensing modality for chemical analyses. Here, we evaluate the feasib...

Nature Reviews Chemistry, Published online: 25 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41570-026-00849-0Artificial intelligence (AI) opens up classroom creativity, enabling students and instructors to generate chemistry-themed songs with ease. This playful approach may enhance engagement, support memorization of complex concepts, and prompt critical reflection on the role of generative AI in education.

Dried droplet deposits encode compositional information through evaporation-driven self-organization, offering a potential low-cost sensing modality for chemical analysis. Here, we evaluate the feasibility of inferring solute concentrations and pH from ...

The porous mineral structures of alkaline hydrothermal vent chimneys have been proposed as natural concentrators of dissolved organic molecules, potentially addressing the longstanding dilution problem in deep-sea origin-of-life hypotheses. Here, we use ...

We show that solutal Marangoni flows in thin films climbing the outer surfaces of hydrophilic obstacles break circular Belousov-Zhabotinsky waves into striking flower-like patterns. Evaporation-drive....

A Florida State University researcher has received a multi-million-dollar grant to investigate the role enzymes — which influence nearly every process in

The ability to convert chemical energy into directed motion is a defining feature of living systems and a central goal in the design of synthetic active matter. Here, we report a self-propelling syste...

Water hardness is critical in domestic and industrial systems, typically measured by titration, atomic absorption spectroscopy, or inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Here, we present a nove...