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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#ClimateWeekNYC 2026 is wrapping up and C&EN was all over the city covering tech showcases, panels, activations, talks, and the arts, all focused on advancing humanity's response to climate change despite the current headwinds. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪
At Climate Week, technology is still a solution to climate change.
by Craig Bettenhausen, Ana Georgescu, Aayushi Pratap.
Credit: Craig Bettenhausen/C&EN
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Laurel Oldach @laureloldach.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ana Georgescu went deep on coatings chemistry for C&EN for, y'know, reasons. Not addressed: is it a sandwich? #chemsky cen.acs.org/materials/co...
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Why the Reflecting Pool coating peeled and blistered
Primer, heat, and water could all help explain the failures in the pool’s new polymer lining
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Researchers have engineered marine bacteria to keep producing siderophores, molecules that microbes use to scavenge iron from their surroundings, even when iron is abundant, speeding up the dissolution of olivine. #chemsky 🧪
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Engineered bacteria speed rock weathering for carbon removal
Iron-binding molecules keep olivine dissolving in seawater, helping pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A study describes how engineered bacteria accelerate olivine weathering in seawater reactors and increase the water’s alkalinity, allowing it to absorb more CO₂ from the atmosphere. #chemsky 🧪
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Engineered bacteria speed rock weathering for carbon removal
Iron-binding molecules keep olivine dissolving in seawater, helping pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology reopened a chemistry building Aug. 31 after closing it for several days after a hazardous material incident involving a graduate student. #chemsky 🧪
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Potential dimethylmercury incident reported at MIT
The building was closed for 4 days after a report of dimethylmercury synthesis; MIT says it is unclear whether the highly toxic compound was actually produced
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Researchers are studying whether 5-(tetradecyloxy)-2-furoic acid, known as TOFA, can promote weight loss by changing how the body stores and uses fat. #chemsky 🧪
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Can an old molecule turn up the metabolic heat?
TOFA helped high-weight mice lose fat by altering lipid metabolism and energy expenditure
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Researchers are studying whether 5-(tetradecyloxy)-2-furoic acid, known as TOFA, can promote weight loss by changing how the body stores and uses fat. #chemsky 🧪
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Can an old molecule turn up the metabolic heat?
TOFA helped high-weight mice lose fat by altering lipid metabolism and energy expenditure
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Again has acquired the industrial biotechnology company Genomatica in a deal that combines a young carbon dioxide-to-chemical firm with one of the longest-standing developers of biobased chemicals. #chemsky 🧪
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Again acquires industrial biotech veteran Genomatica
The deal adds Genomatica’s biomanufacturing technology and commercial experience to Again’s carbon-to-chemical platform
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week: #chemsky 🧪
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Business Watch: Japan’s Eneos to acquire TPC; FDA approves twice-rejected melanoma drug
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A new multiplexed screening platform that simultaneously tests multiple small molecules against a panel of E3 ubiquitin ligases, enzymes that tag proteins for degradation, has allowed a team of researchers to search for molecular glues more efficiently. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪
New screening platform expands the search for molecular glues.
Researchers identify a first-in-kind metabolically activated degrader that hints at a new class of protein-degrading drugs.
by Ana Georgescu.
A colored ribbon diagram of four bound molecules, with an inset close-up of small molecule shown between two larger proteins.
Credit: Hojong Yoon/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Researchers collected microscopic paint samples from the areas marked in purple on Diego Rivera’s Creation (1922–23) to analyze the mural’s binding medium. The team found evidence of copal resin but no detectable beeswax. #chemsky 🧪
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New analysis rewrites the recipe for Rivera’s first mural
Researchers find the copal resin, but not the beeswax, Rivera described in his technique
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week: #chemsky 🧪
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Business Watch: BioBTX moves on renewable aromatics; Scribe’s IPO is a hit
Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Chemistry is key to the success of current and future space missions: cen.acs.org/physical-che... #chemsky 🧪
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Buying PolyPeptide will give Samsung Biologics new capability and expertise in peptides, a modality that has surged with the popularity of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) drugs for weight loss and that is being explored in oncology and other disease areas. #chemsky 🧪
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Peptides are big, and Samsung Biologics is paying $1.8 billion to get in on the action
Planned acquisition of specialist PolyPeptide signals interest in peptides by drug outsourcing firms
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Ana Georgescu @theanageorgescu.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One of my all-time favorite projects, forever in love with salamanders and my three teammates 🦎
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
In a new study that pointed two radio telescopes at a molecular cloud, researchers detected erythrulose, a four-carbon monosaccharide that could have been transferred to minor bodies, such as comets and asteroids, and then delivered to younger planets such as the early Earth. #chemsky 🧪
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Astronomers detect sugar in interstellar space for the first time
The discovery of erythrulose suggests that complex sugars can form on icy dust grains long before planets emerge
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Bri Barbu @bribarbu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚀Space package launch is a go!🚀 @cenmag.bsky.social's physical sciences team has been working hard on this for over half a year and I'm so excited to finally show it to the world! cen.acs.org/physical-che...
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To the moon, Mars, and beyond
Chemistry is key to the success of current and future space missions
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This moisture-activated battery can bend and stretch thanks to this pangolin-inspired design that packs individual battery cells closely together and absorbs mechanical strain via the battery’s interconnecting structures. cen.acs.org/materials/en... #chemsky 🧪
This new stretchable battery harvests water from air.
The device, which pulls moisture from the atmosphere to form its electrolyte, could power wearable health monitors.
by Ana Georgescu.
This moisture-activated battery can bend and stretch thanks to this pangolin-inspired design that packs individual battery cells closely together and absorbs mechanical strain via the battery’s interconnecting structures. Credit: Rajaram Kaveti/North Carolina State University.
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Researchers have designed a new ultrablack composite material made for automotive coating that absorbs nearly all light. #chemsky 🧪
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Any color the customer wants, as long as it’s the blackest black
A new ultrablack coating for automotive and other applications combines carbon black and carbon nanotubes
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Scientists using NASA's Perseverance rover have detected complex organic carbon in rocks from Jezero Crater, adding to growing evidence that organic material can persist on Mars for billions of years. #chemsky 🧪
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Ancient Martian rocks preserve complex organic carbon
The ‘Perseverance’ rover finds new clues to how organic material formed and persisted on the Red Planet
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Bri Barbu @bribarbu.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What's going on with the water in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? The situation is---well, murky--and many mysteries still remain. @theanageorgescu.bsky.social dauntlessly emailed a bunch of algae experts in search of a smidge of clarity:
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Why the Reflecting Pool keeps turning green
Nitrogen, phosphorus, sunlight, and stagnant water can combine to create the perfect conditions for algal blooms
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Bethany Halford @bethanyhalford.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Green with envy or green with algae? Writing for @cenmag.bsky.social, editorial fellow @theanageorgescu.bsky.social (with an assist from @bribarbu.bsky.social) goes deep on the chemistry of the reflecting pool. #chemsky🧪 cen.acs.org/environment/...
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Why the Reflecting Pool keeps turning green
Nitrogen, phosphorus, sunlight, and stagnant water can combine to create the perfect conditions for algal blooms
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Laura Howes @laurahowes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I see a black car and I want to paint it blacker? Please welcome @theanageorgescu.bsky.social to the @cenmag.bsky.social team, and enjoy her first story for us cen.acs.org/materials/na...
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Any color the customer wants, as long as it’s the blackest black
A new ultrablack coating for automotive and other applications combines carbon black and carbon nanotubes
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Ana Georgescu @theanageorgescu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@sevensugars.bsky.social hi Ashley, I'm a journalist with @cenmag.bsky.social, (also fellow fan of algae and gay pirates) would you have time for a chat?
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Could your car run on #kelp? Great piece by Zoe Beketova & @theanageorgescu.bsky.social on the pitfalls & promise of #seaweed -based biofuels. #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑
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MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A lovely story by @apnews.com's climate desk on our recent collaboration: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ap-mit...
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AP and MIT develop climate stories together
Hello and welcome to The Associated Press Climate newsletter. I’m Peter Prengaman, AP’s climate and environment news director.
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MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The last installment of our collaboration with @apnews.com is now up. The story, by Zoe Beketova and @theanageorgescu.bsky.social, '26, dives into kelp biofuels: apnews.com/article/kelp... Thanks to Annika Hammerschlag, Peter Prengaman, and Alyssa Goodman for editing and mentoring
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Planes and ships could run on kelp someday, but there are serious hurdles
Kelp, a kind of seaweed, can be used in biofuels that one day could power ships and aircraft. That would sharply reduce the use of gas and oil, which emit greenhouse gases that lead to global warming.
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Alex Megerle @alexmegerle.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My latest story—a collab with my brilliant cohort-mate, Laura Martín Agudelo, and the awesome folks on the @apnews.com Climate & Environment team—explores a weather station in Massachusetts that still uses analog tools. Video: me + the sterling @joshuabickel.bsky.social apnews.com/article/weat...
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One of America’s oldest weather observatories shows people the science behind our climate
At Blue Hill Observatory and Science Center, a weather station 15 miles south of Boston, staff and volunteers have been using many of the same tools to monitor the weather since it opened in 1885.
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Michael Greshko @michaelgreshko.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Ana Georgescu @theanageorgescu.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
not escaping "space girl" allegations
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Ana Georgescu @theanageorgescu.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Reported on everyone's favorite giant from this year's @aas.org meeting 🌟 #AAS247
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WIRED @wired.com · 13/01/2026
If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there. www.wired.com/story/china-...
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Trump Declared a Space Race With China. The US Is Losing
If you want to put people back on the moon, don’t gut the agency in charge of getting them there.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 09/10/2025
Chess dungeon crawler, yeah aftermath.site/chess-dungeon-...
Below the Crown
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Ana Georgescu @theanageorgescu.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
fat bear week this, federal duck stamp contest that. now mineral cup
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
there's a chill in the air, which only means one thing: it's time for white man murmuring music
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Fundamentally the #Mars announcement NASA is making today boils down to: there could have been some chemical reactions in these ancient rocks that could have been mediated by living organisms. The word "could" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting there. 🧪
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I’ve learnt a lot of new things about the differences between Europe and the US in the past two years, but honestly the biggest surprise has been realizing that tuna pizza is not a thing in the US.
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MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing @mitsciwrite.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The GPSW is thrilled to announce our incoming Class of 2026! Welcome Laura Martin Agudelo, Zoe Beketova, @ashleydsouza.bsky.social, Ana Georgescu, Jamie Jiang, Lucie McCormick, Alex Megerle, and Julia Vaz. You can read about our new cohort here: sciwrite.mit.edu/faculty-and-...
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Students - MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing
Class of 2026 Health, medicine
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CASW @sciencewriting.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Seven journalists are headed to grad school as 2025 Taylor/Blakeslee Fellows! Each will receive $6,000, thanks to the Brinson Foundation. Congrats to Bridget Balch, Alonso Daboub, Rachel Duckett, @ashleydsouza.bsky.social, Ana Georgescu, @stellamayerhoff.bsky.social & Alex Megerle. bit.ly/tbs2526
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Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · 24/05/2025
A problem many over-hyped companies have: "This whole strategy—making enormous claims to guarantee wall-to-wall coverage in the press, only to later quietly correct such claims in an interview with a single publication—is not just dishonest, but also patronizing." Read @sabs.bsky.social's story:
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
just because a fancy company says something doesn't mean we have to believe them, and in fact, we should not! defector.com/do-not-be-ba...
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Do Not Be Bamboozled By The New Fluffy Mouse | Defector
As I see it, there are a few unofficial laws of science journalism when it comes to covering new research. The first and most obvious is that outlets are more likely to cover a press release if it is ...
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