Category: Chemistry

As per Human Rights Watch, Israel fired white phosphorus bombs over Gaza and Lebanon during their conflict with Hamas.

The 2023 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.

Article in the Hindu – India is running out of phosphorus. Does the solution lie in our sewage? 

Vanadium, a vital raw material for numerous industrial uses, was recently discovered in sediment samples obtained from the Gulf of Khambhat in Gujarat.

Researchers at the University of Princeton have developed a String technique that can drastically reduce the amount of land and time needed for lithium production.

IARC has classified aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic” to humans and JECFA has reaffirmed that the acceptable daily intake should be 40 mg/kg body weight.