Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c12618 At a glance Can two dopants take different jobs in an oxygen-evolution catalyst? Researchers at Northwestern University and collaborating institutions e...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-026-01168-4 At a glance Ethane is abundant and inexpensive, but its stable C–H bonds make direct carbon-chain extension difficult under mild condition...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c11635 At a glance Breaking carbon–fluorine bonds is only one part of PFAS treatment. The chemical form in which fluorine leaves the organic material matters a...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c15241 At a glance Designing a nanofiltration membrane means navigating many interacting choices: monomer chemistry, concentrations, additives, polymerization...

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.1300481 At a glance Direct propane dehydrogenation supplies propylene for major chemical value chains, but conventional thermal routes opera...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.75166 At a glance A team led by Can Xue and Lydia Helena Wong tuned the local coordination of atomically dispersed cobalt in polymeric carbon nitride. The lower...

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.3499350 At a glance An IMDEA Energy Institute-led collaboration compared Fe-, Co- and Ni-modified BiVO₄ photoanodes to examine how the local...

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.2540246 At a glance Researchers at Taiyuan University of Technology created three regioisomeric thiophene covalent organic frameworks to exa...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02563-9 A third-year PhD student wrote to Nature after finding it increasingly difficult to do more than the minimum required for their degree. Earl...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02441-4 A biochemistry graduate student in the United States wrote to Nature with a difficult question. They felt exhausted, disconnected from their...

Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/i-thought-i-don-t-know-signaled-scientific-incompetence-now-i-know-different During an interview for a postdoctoral position, Jingkai Lin was given a h...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-026-01615-7 At a glance Oxygen vacancies are frequently used to explain the activity of oxide catalysts, but identifying exactly where a small, dynami...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-026-00958-8 At a glance A battery electrolyte is more than a liquid that carries ions between two electrodes. Its composition changes the chemical pot...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c13568 At a glance During electrochemical CO₂ reduction on TM–N₄ single-atom catalysts, CO yield often rises, reaches a plateau and then declines as the applie...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77944-9 At a glance One-dimensional zeolites can steer methanol-to-hydrocarbons chemistry towards C₃–C₅ alkenes, but their narrow channels are vul...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c04230 At a glance Operando small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering follows iridium nanoparticles and titanium-based supports during 3,000 square-wave cycles be...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c17163 At a glance A vanadium redox mediator carries reducing equivalents from an electrochemical cell to a separate PtRu/C hydrogenation zone. This arrangemen...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01940-6 At a glance A team led by the National University of Singapore reports a two-stage catalyst reconstruction that separates two electronic f...

Source: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.71632 At a glance A metal–organic framework does not have to remain perfectly ordered to remain useful. Researchers at Adelaide Uni...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44286-026-00443-7 At a glance Ingestible electronics can monitor the gastrointestinal tract, communicate wirelessly or deliver electrical therapy, but conve...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-026-01612-w At a glance Where does catalytic activity reside on a platinum nanoparticle while the particle is working? Researchers from the University...

Source: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.75051 At a glance The inorganic core of a colloidal quantum dot can be imaged at atomic resolution, yet the soft and disordered org...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.7506 At a glance A team from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics has developed an ultrathin metal oxi...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.75109 At a glance A multi-institutional team led by researchers at Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Donghua University has developed a linker-d...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02608-z UK universities are confronting financial strain, changing student demand and reduced public funding at the same time. A Nature Career Featu...

Source: https://www.science.org/content/article/i-used-keep-my-family-life-private-grad-school-natural-disaster-changed For years, Daniela C. Molina Palacios kept her family life separate from her wo...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02184-2 When Anna Sandak submitted her first proposal to the European Research Council in April 2021, she was seeking support for a new scientific d...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c15419 At a glance Metal clusters are often expected to remain as compact units when they land on an oxide surface, especially at room temperature. A team from...

Source:  https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.6c05165 At a glance Researchers from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Nanjing Forestry University and Shihezi University developed size-minimize...

Source: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.78520 At a glance An Adelaide University-led team placed isolated Ni–S₄ sites on CdS nanorods to photoreform poly(lactic acid), or ...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-026-00687-w At a glance A chlorine-functionalized covalent organic framework helped a Peking University-led team capture light across a wavelength range of ab...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c13687 At a glance A team at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics reports that trace CO₂ or H₂O in a propane feed can help assemble paired Rh–In sites duri...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-77080-4 At a glance How large must a reaction network be to describe CO₂ hydrogenation on copper? A team led by researchers at the Indian Institute of Sci...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c14417 At a glance A Westlake University team compared a series of ruthenium complexes bearing NMe₂, H and CF₃ substituents to examine how ligand electronics a...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-026-02256-w At a glance Not all oxygen vacancies behave alike. In tetragonal zirconia, a team led by researchers at Nanjing University of Science and Technolo...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c10078 At a glance How do oxygen vacancies change the fate of photogenerated charge carriers in blue TiO₂? Tae Gyun Woo and colleagues combine femtosecond Ti K...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c13561 At a glance CO2 electroreduction depends not only on the electrode but also on how CO2 reaches it. Aaron Z. Hoagland and colleagues coupled a nanobubble...

Source: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adfm.77319 At a glance Why do some wide-bandgap perovskite films emit more strongly than others? Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich prep...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-026-01600-0 At a glance A direct way to extend a carbon skeleton is to add an alkyl fragment and a hydrogen atom across an alkene. This hydroalkylatio...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-026-01934-4 At a glance Solar-driven interfacial evaporation concentrates heat close to the water-air interface, allowing sunlight to produce water va...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c09942 At a glance Methane is abundant, but its strong carbon-hydrogen bonds make selective conversion under mild conditions a demanding chemical task. A team ...

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.3649572 At a glance Single-atom catalysts offer well-defined active sites, and their coordination environments provide a way to regulate...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77732-5 At a glance Human urine is a concentrated source of nitrogen and phosphorus, but its composition begins changing soon after collection. Ur...

Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.5012045 At a glance Polystyrene is useful precisely because its carbon backbone and aromatic rings are difficult to disrupt, but that durabi...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77629-3 At a glance Polaritons are hybrid waves formed when light couples to collective excitations in matter. Their ability to confine electromag...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77786-5 At a glance Photoelectrochemical water splitting uses semiconductor electrodes to turn light energy into chemical fuel. Its charges must r...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-77708-5 At a glance Fischer–Tropsch synthesis can turn syngas into liquid hydrocarbons and is an established route from feedstocks such as biomass...

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-026-01613-9 At a glance Nickel-based anodes are active and relatively low-cost catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline water ele...

Source: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6c11237 At a glance Lithium metal offers high theoretical capacity and a low electrochemical potential, making it a promising anode for high-energy batteries. I...