The start-up combines microorganisms, water treatment chemistry, and continuous monitoring to reduce reliance on chemical biocides

Meet the companies rethinking how we make medicines, food, materials, and more

From Windex-blue sapphires to alga-green ketchup, researchers expand the palette

Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week

Francis Halzen honored for the discovery of ghostlike messengers from the cosmos

Primer, heat, and water could all help explain the failures in the pool’s new polymer lining

Iron-binding molecules keep olivine dissolving in seawater, helping pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Iron-binding molecules keep olivine dissolving in seawater, helping pull more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

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

TOFA helped high-weight mice lose fat by altering lipid metabolism and energy expenditure

TOFA helped high-weight mice lose fat by altering lipid metabolism and energy expenditure

The deal adds Genomatica’s biomanufacturing technology and commercial experience to Again’s carbon-to-chemical platform

Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week

Researchers find the copal resin, but not the beeswax, Rivera described in his technique

Here’s what we’re watching in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries this week

Planned acquisition of specialist PolyPeptide signals interest in peptides by drug outsourcing firms

The discovery of erythrulose suggests that complex sugars can form on icy dust grains long before planets emerge

Chemistry is key to the success of current and future space missions

A new ultrablack coating for automotive and other applications combines carbon black and carbon nanotubes

The ‘Perseverance’ rover finds new clues to how organic material formed and persisted on the Red Planet

Nitrogen, phosphorus, sunlight, and stagnant water can combine to create the perfect conditions for algal blooms

Nitrogen, phosphorus, sunlight, and stagnant water can combine to create the perfect conditions for algal blooms

A new ultrablack coating for automotive and other applications combines carbon black and carbon nanotubes

Hello and welcome to The Associated Press Climate newsletter. I’m Peter Prengaman, AP’s climate and environment news director.

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.

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.

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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