One last thing from my very busy week @cenmag.bsky.social!

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder invented a system of inks for creating full-color tattooed images that appear and disappear in response to light. And the PI tested it on himself!

Read more:
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Lovely op-ed from Neil Garg about giving a pub lecture and how chemists can meet the public where they're at.
"Organic chemistry gives us medicines, materials, and much of life as we know it. Yet our field is still best known publicly as a bad college experience."
cen.acs.org/education/ou...

I went on the Stereo Chemistry pod to talk about--what else--stereochemistry! That being the topic of this year's #ChemNobel.
(Cut for time: me yapping about linocut, neutrinos, and a running joke among the science team concerning the chirality of cows.)

As space agencies prepare to turn brief excursions into long-term stays on the moon and Mars, chemistry shifts from a backstage helper to a leading role.

#WorldSpaceWeek #WSW2026 #chemsky 🧪

Oh also all three of the Blavatnik award laureates have ties to chemistry! I helped pull together a quick story yesterday about it with @maxhenrybarnhart.bsky.social and Prachi Patel!
Big congrats to @nagiblab.bsky.social!!!
cen.acs.org/people/award...

and how could i forget @fmorningstar.bsky.social helping wrangle structures???

MASSIVE thanks to @laurahowes.bsky.social, @bethanyhalford.bsky.social, @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social, @scigorski.bsky.social and our art and copyediting teams!

it was all hands (get it??) on deck for #ChemNobel coverage this morning--Henri Kagan and Henso Soai winning for work related to chiral catalysis was not on my bingo board but we love a good fundamental chem prize with big commercial apps over here!
cen.acs.org/people/nobel...

Are you ready to try something new and work in #SciComm?

Apply now to be a part of the 2027 cohort of @aaas.org #MassMediaFellows! Spend the summer using your STEMM background as a journalist writing the news. English and Spanish language placements available. bit.ly/3KugH6D

Of the 20 recipients of this year's MacArthur "genius grants", two —@songlin1.bsky.social at Stanford and Liangfang Zhang at UCSD—have ties to chemistry! Both creatively merge science and tech with implications for building better medicines:
Read more @cenmag.bsky.social:
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Phosphate has stepped into a new role as an autonomous molecular machine! Researchers took cues from biomolecules such as DNA, RNA, and ATP to design this clever lil molecular walker.

Read more @cenmag.bsky.social:
cen.acs.org/materials/mo...

TIL that the totality of dark matter on Earth is about the same mass as a squirrel!
This illuminating fact and more can be found in @ananyapalivela.bsky.social's superb new feature on the role of chemistry in dark matter detection!
cen.acs.org/materials/da...

Trying to get alkyl radicals and alkenes to link up is kind of like trying to get two introverts at a party to talk to each other. @pushingarrows.bsky.social and crew's clever solution was, basically, to get a carboxyl group to introduce the two and then leave them to it.
cen.acs.org/synthesis/ca...