7 foods you should never store in the fridge and the reason may surprise you

Refrigerators are the main tool of modern food storage and have become almost the sole reference for the freshness and safety ...
Science Daily

Cheaper than lithium, just as powerful — Sodium batteries are finally catching up

Researchers discovered how to stabilize a high-performance sodium compound, giving sodium-based solid-state batteries the power and stability they’ve long lacked. The new material conducts ions far ...
Los Angeles Times

What’s Really in Your Kids’ Furniture? How to Find Safe, Chemical-Free Pieces for Your Home

LA Times Studios may earn commission from purchases made through our links. Most parents don’t plan for their child’s first taste of furniture...but at some point, it happens. A tooth mark on the crib ...
SciELO

1,3-thiazolium-5-thiolates mesoionic compounds: semiempirical evaluation of their first static hyperpolarizabilities and synthesis of new examples

Semiempirical AM1-TDHF calculations of the static first hyperpolarizabilities, β(0), of 1,3-thiazolium-5-thiolate mesoionic derivatives were performed. Guided by these results, two new mesoionic ...
C&EN

Isolation of Noncrystalline Compounds via Adsorption on a Solid Support

The Supporting Information is available free of charge at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.orglett.5c01715.
Carnegie Institution for Science

Dinitrogen as a Universal Electron Acceptor in Solid-State Chemistry: An Example of Uncommon Metallic Compounds Na-3(N-2)(4) and NaN2

With the exception of lithium, alkali metals do not react with elemental nitrogen either at ambient conditions or at elevated temperatures, requiring the search for alternative synthetic routes to ...