Ceres: An Ocean World in the Asteroid Belt

Discover Magazine: Remnants of an ancient water ocean are buried beneath the icy crust of dwarf planet Ceres — or, at least, lingering pockets of one. That’s the tantalizing find presented August 10 by scientists working on NASA’s Dawn mission. Their…

Fluorescent materials are the brightest ever made

C&EN: Using a strategy that should be applicable to many fluorescent dyes, chemists have created the brightest-ever fluorescent materials. The approach combines commonly available cationic dyes and a colorless macrocycle that sequesters anions. The resulting fluorescent materials could be used…

Fighting COVID-19 by luring the virus away from human cells with a decoy target

FierceBiotech: Sars-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, infects a person by first binding its spike protein to the ACE2 receptor on the surface of human cells. Blocking…

Video Game Approved as Prescription Medicine

IEEE Spectrum: This summer, a video game became available by prescription in the United States. This first-ever FDA-approved digital treatment builds on a tradition of gaming as a therapeutic tool that extends back more than a decade. Its game play gets…