Flame retardants from consumer electronic products are present in household dust, raising health concerns

Fireproofing the Dust

A Better, Lighter Deicer
Graphene stacks in an epoxy matrix make a conductive composite that melts ice on aircraft wings

Death by Peroxide for Cancer Cells
Five-membered ring organic peroxide is cytotoxic to cancer cells by ferroptosis, not apoptosis

Nondestructive Virus Detection
Nanohole fibers made of quartz glass permit nondestructive detection of viruses

A New Twist for Quantum Dots
Cysteine ligands cause graphene quantum dots to form left- and right-handed helices

Tilted Levitation Solves MagLev Problem
Tilting a magnetic levitation tube increases the range of densities it can measure tenfold

Magnesium-Powered Magnetism
New geological model provides missing information on what drives Earth's magnetic dynamo

Electricity from Heartbeats
Piezoelectric microgenerators could use the body's movements to power biomedical implants

Fire-Retardant Graphene Foams
Ultralight compressible foam outperforming traditional flame-retardant materials

Metal-Free Arene-Alkyne Cross-Coupling
Simple sulfoxide-directed reaction leads to useful molecular scaffolds