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Climate startup OCOchem, which recycles CO2 into fuels and chemicals, lands $5M

GeekWire

based startup, raised $5 million to scale its technology for turning carbon dioxide into chemicals that can be used to manufacture clean hydrogen, fertilizer, animal feed and other products. Second, it generates formic acid and other formate chemicals that can replace fossil fuels as a feedstock for fuels and other products.

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Dow turns to AI to accelerate chemical search

CIO Business Intelligence

With several million compounds to choose from, chemists often must resort to intuition when trying to solve complex problems around chemical processes. US multinational Dow Chemical was working with a pulp and paper manufacturer to improve inefficiencies in its chemical process with a goal of producing a better, safer pulp yield.

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AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours

The Verge

An instructor at the Fort Leonard Wood Chemical School, who is designated as an agent handler, carries the VX nerve agent to contaminate a jeep in one of the eight chambers used for training chemical defense on April 18, 2003 at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images. Tell me more about what you found.

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This startup aims to improve recycling by capturing ‘chemical fingerprints’ with high-tech cameras

GeekWire

Metaspectral uses hyperspectral cameras to rapidly create a chemical fingerprint of plastic items, distinguishing between polyethylene terephthalate (PET), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and polypropylene (PP) plastics. “It allows us to make up a chemical fingerprint off the material we’re looking at.”

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Future VR Haptics May Use Chemicals on the Skin to Make You Feel

Gizmodo

As a potential way to simulate a human’s ability to feel physical sensations, researchers have developed haptic VR hardware that applies chemicals to your skin to trigger… Read more. Virtual reality experiences are never going to feel like the real world until we’re able to engage all of our senses, not just vision and hearing.

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Obesity, Infertility, and Low IQ Are Just Some of the Ways Household Chemicals Wreck Our Health

Gizmodo

A new analysis published in the Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology on Tuesday found that a growing number of endocrine-disrupting household chemicals have been linked to widespread health problems, including infertility, diabetes, and impaired brain development. The researchers examined hundreds of studies published in… Read more.

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Chemists developed a new ML framework to improve catalysts

Dataconomy

A new machine learning framework developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory can hone in on which parts of a multistep chemical conversion should be altered to increase productivity.