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2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 2d

More context added. Enjoy will i go take a nap

Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 2d

welp, you get what you ask for. joking with coworkers that it's going to be mofs, and i'm really a med chem type so will i be able to do this and lol here it is. the Nobel Prize for chemistry for 2025 goes to the development of metal-organic frameworks.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and...

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment

Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 2d

i've written a few nobel prize stories in my career and honestly the worst part is waiting for western hemi people to wake up and check email/vm to sked interviews. trying europe but gahhhh. update soon, but for now appreciate the committee compared MOFs to Hermione's bag - small space max capacity

Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 2d

welp, you get what you ask for. joking with coworkers that it's going to be mofs, and i'm really a med chem type so will i be able to do this and lol here it is. the Nobel Prize for chemistry for 2025 goes to the development of metal-organic frameworks.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and...

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment

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Josh Fischman @jfischman.bsky.social · 2d

Finally! After decades of also-runs, amazing molecular cages-which can do everything from trapping greenhouse gases to delivering and releasing drugs at specific parts of the body- won the Chemistry Nobel. Read @megha.bsky.social 's story, here, and watch for updates today.

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and...

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 2d

welp, you get what you ask for. joking with coworkers that it's going to be mofs, and i'm really a med chem type so will i be able to do this and lol here it is. the Nobel Prize for chemistry for 2025 goes to the development of metal-organic frameworks.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and...

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 2d

the nobel prize for chemistry has gone to the folks who developed MOFs - metal organic frameworks. more to come

Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 3d

alright Texans, my first ever batch of @tacodeli.bsky.social doña salsa is underway as I prep for the #chemistry Nobel (this salsa is an emulsion, some maillard, some acidification, etc).
prepare yourself for max capsaicin/trpv-r action 🔥🌶️🌮

Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 4d

i'll be covering nobel chemistry on wednesday so hmu with all your coffee memes because it will be so so so early.

Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 4d

fun fact: i wrote about this topic and interviewed fred ramsdell years ago. really glad to see a discovery that could change so many lives get the nod.

cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

This Year’s Medicine Nobel Goes to Discovery of Why the Body Doesn’t Attack Itself

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Tanya Lewis @tanyalewis.bsky.social · 4d

This year's #medicineNobel was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell & Shimon Sakaguchi for discovering why the body doesn't attack itself—key for organ transplants and autoimmune disease therapies. By @laurenjyoung.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune disease...

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 5d

is it poss to be Taylor Swift’s loaf of bread for Halloween

Tylenol Is One of the Most Commonly Used Kids' Meds. Is It Safe?

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Tanya Lewis @tanyalewis.bsky.social · 10d

I wrote about what we know about the safety of Tylenol (acetaminophen) in kids (spoiler alert: it's fine): www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t... Thanks to @megha.bsky.social for editing

President Trump says Tylenol is not safe for young children. Here’s what the science says about acetaminophen

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · 8d

a little inadvertent body shaming/diet culture talk today at the dr and this is your and my daily reminder that “cute” is how you feel and not a body size or shape. yada yada ted talk yada

Exclusive: Neon takes down app after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 15d

NEW: Neon, an app that pays you to record your calls so your audio can be used to train AI, and already rose to the top #5 free apps on Apple's App Store, has gone offline after a security lapse.

We found the app exposed users' phone numbers, call recordings, and text transcripts of those calls.

Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user.

techcrunch.com

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 15d

Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are thriving on the skeletons of these vessels

Drone Footage Reveals How History Became Habitat in the Potomac

Nearly 100 years ago dozens of ships were abandoned in a shallow bay in the Potomac River. Today plants and animals are thriving on the skeletons of these vessels

Welcome - ScienceWriters2025

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 20d

Join us at the Science Writers meeting in Chicago Nov. 7-9. ("Science" includes health, technology, environment or any scholarship, and "writers" includes any form of communication.) I'm running a session on advice columns with @megha.bsky.social, Hal Koss & Ismael Pérez sciencewriters2025.org

ScienceWriters is an annual conference for professionals and students who produce material about science, health, engineering, and technology for the public.

sciencewriters2025.org

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · Sep 10

look a rock

Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · Sep 10

Scientists just shared their best look to date at what might be the most tantalizing rock on Mars: 🧪 🛰️ www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-t...

This Martian Rock Might Be the Closest We’ve Come to Finding Alien Life

The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once inhabited the Red Planet

Scientific American Volume 333, Issue 2

Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · Aug 25

hi @sciam.bsky.social fans. our september issue is pretty awesome. please read
* peanuts
* plastic eating microbiome
* puking spiders
* eeyore dogs
www.scientificamerican.com/issue/sa/202...

"New Treatments Can Free Kids from the Deadly Threat of Peanut Allergy", "What Happens When an Entire Scientific Field Changes Its Mind", "How Scientists Finally Learned That Nerves Regrow" and more

Human Case of Flesh-Eating Screwworms Detected In U.S.

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · Aug 25

sleep well frens

www.scientificamerican.com/article/huma...

This gruesome parasite is more of a threat to your burger than to you

As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. - KFF Health News

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · Aug 25

4/ “The CDC had gone dark,” said Terri Burke, executive director of the Texas nonprofit, the Immunization Project.

“We had anticipated a measles outbreak, but we didn’t expect the federal government to be in collapse when it hit.” kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Trump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together...

kffhealthnews.org

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Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨🧵My latest:

As measles took off in Texas, the Trump administration took actions that prevented CDC scientists from responding.

The outbreak became the biggest in 30 yrs. It’s far larger considering the outbreaks it sparked in other states & Mexico. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered. - KFF Health News

Trump officials sowed fear and confusion among CDC scientists, slowing their response to the measles outbreak in West Texas. Cases surged and sparked new outbreaks across the U.S. and Mexico. Together...

kffhealthnews.org

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · Aug 25

"“Kaboom” is not the sound you want a rocket ship to make, as a rule."

the future of spaceflight needs to stop exploding.

good read in @sciam.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

SpaceX’s Starship Is Supposed to Be the Future of Spaceflight—So Why Does It Keep Exploding?

After a string of fiery failures, SpaceX’s biggest rocket faces another test flight with sky-high stakes for U.S. space ambitions

The Way You Search the Internet Can Fuel Echo Chambers—Without You Realizing It

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Megha Satyanarayana @megha.bsky.social · Aug 25

the words we use to search the internet can feed into our biases. nice story in @sciam.bsky.social

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Users’ Internet search questions can strengthen echo chambers, even on factual topics, but there are simple ways to lessen the effect