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Carbon Dioxide or CO2 is pretty much everywhere. Every time we breathe out we make more of it and every day when we drive out cars we create even more. If we were somehow able to convert CO2 into ...

In the past, adding carbon atoms to molecules like this was slow and took many complicated steps. But the Cambridge team discovered a groundbreaking new way to do it—faster, easier and all in one go.

Chemical engineering researchers have created a new synthetic metabolic pathway for breaking down glucose that could lead to a 50 percent increase in the production of biofuels. UCLA chemical ...

Opening a broad vista in the search for effective pharmaceuticals, a collaboration of Chinese and U.S. chemists has laid out a highly efficient new method to convert abundant organic molecules into ...