Tattoos you can turn on and off(livescience.com)
62 points by MortyDev | 29 comments
Live Science article about researchers creating multicolored tattoo inks activated by different wavelengths of light, letting tattoos be hidden or shown.
#chemistry on Hacker News
14 stories tagged chemistry, newest first.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai(nobelprize.org)
291 points by sasvari | 55 comments
Official Nobel Prize press release from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announcing the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai.
The characters of plastics (2024)(yarchive.net)
19 points by thelastgallon | 4 comments
A 2024 blog post comparing common plastic types such as polyethylene and nylon to human characters, explaining their chemical properties and uses.
Now That's an Impurity Story(science.org)
36 points by dcminter | 2 comments
A Science.org blog post (likely Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline) about a chemical impurity story; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
In an $80 motel room, a discovery to shed light on the origins of life(nytimes.com)
287 points by danso | 108 comments
New York Times science article about a discovery made in an $80 motel room that may shed light on the origins of life; the page captured was a bot-block screen.
The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast?(jgeekstudies.org)
119 points by zdw | 26 comments
A Journal of Geek Studies article examining whether grog from the Monkey Island games could realistically dissolve a metal mug as quickly as depicted.
Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows(brown.edu)
378 points by hhs | 168 comments
Brown University news release on research giving direct experimental evidence that relativistic effects break the textbook triple bond structure in heavy elements.
That Methyl Methacrylate Tank(science.org)
404 points by nooks | 174 comments
A Science blog post (In the Pipeline) about a methyl methacrylate tank; the capture shows only a Cloudflare verification page.
![Screenshot of exhibitdb.cmog.org: Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]](https://hn.urlbox.com/shots/renders/2025/10/27/178b2c3f-98fc-46ea-9ede-6d233315011e.jpg)
Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf](exhibitdb.cmog.org)
350 points by speckx | 71 comments
A scanned PDF of Corning Glass Works' 1938 Pyrex brand laboratory glassware catalog, featuring hand-drawn illustrations of lab equipment, hosted by the Corning Museum of Glass.
Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction(nobelprize.org)
510 points by mitchbob | 287 comments
Official Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences press release announcing the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design and protein structure prediction.
In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules(atomsonly.news)
532 points by mailyk | 185 comments
Substack essay on how Ben Franklin and Lord Rayleigh used oil spread on water to estimate the size of a single molecule.
Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)(blogs.sciencemag.org)
349 points by fanf2 | 91 comments
Derek Lowe's 'Things I Won't Work With' blog post on hazardous high-oxidation-state bromine compounds; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.
A Caltech Nobel laureate celebrates his 100th birthday, then gets back to work(latimes.com)
439 points by pseudolus | 209 comments
LA Times article about Caltech chemist and Nobel laureate Rudy Marcus turning 100 and continuing his research work.
John Goodenough has died(thehindubusinessline.com)
403 points by epistasis | 94 comments
Hindu BusinessLine news report on the death of John Goodenough, the Nobel laureate who co-invented the lithium-ion battery.