Steve Bennett

Of Mousanes and Men

💡 The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Small Imbalances, Huge Effects

Oct 12, 2026

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5 min read

Shedding New Light on a Century-Old Reaction

💡 Despite Decades of Green Chemistry, Hazardous Solvents Are on the Rise

Oct 5, 2026

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6 min read

Modern Alchemy: Next-Generation C→N Transmutation

💡 Hasta la Vista, Humanity: Will AI Really Kill Us All?

Sep 28, 2026

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7 min read

Amide → Ketone

💡 AI Bioweapons Report Finds Five Cases of Potential Misuse

Sep 21, 2026

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5 min read

Dump, Stir, Diversify

💡 Two Safety Incidents in 24 Hours: MIT and Hokkaido

Sep 14, 2026

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7 min read

The One-Carbon Shuffle

💡 Weird Science: Highlights from the 2026 Ig Nobels

Sep 7, 2026

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5 min read

The Smallest Radical in the Universe

💡 The Scientific Legacy of Dolly Parton

Aug 31, 2026

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7 min read

The O-to-C Edit

💡 Moderna’s Cancer Vaccine Sends Shares Soaring 177%

Aug 24, 2026

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7 min read

Pyridines 🤝 Phosphines

💡 A 700-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals the Grisly Impact of a Medieval Trebuchet

Aug 17, 2026

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7 min read

Two for One

💡 How a Pesticide from the 1940s May Be Helping Mosquitoes Find Love

Aug 10, 2026

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6 min read

Finally, Fluorine: The Appel Reaction’s Last Frontier

💡 Have We Gotten Any Better at Developing Drugs Since the 1960s?

Aug 3, 2026

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4 min read

Safer Skeletal Editing

💡 Meet Gus: The $50 Million T. rex

Jul 27, 2026

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7 min read

Life After DEAD: A Modern Mitsunobu

💡 14 Risk Factors Linked to 45% of Dementia Cases

Jul 20, 2026

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7 min read

Double Duty for DCM

💡 Ocean Expedition Discovers 31 New Species Hidden in Earth’s Largest Habitat

Jul 13, 2026

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7 min read

Downsizing

💡 99% of the World’s Coffee Comes From Just Two Species. Both Are Under Threat.

Jul 6, 2026

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6 min read

A “Metallo-Curtius” Rearrangement

💡 Take a Break from Chemistry — Terraform Mars Instead

Jun 29, 2026

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7 min read

A One-Stop Alkyl-Swap

💡 Brexit at 10: What's on the Horizon for UK–EU Science?

Jun 22, 2026

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4 min read

Pick a Nitrogen, Any Nitrogen

💡 What's Really in Those Vapes?

Jun 15, 2026

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6 min read

Oxygen from Carbon Dioxide

💡 The 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year

Jun 8, 2026

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7 min read

[1+1+1]: Building Cyclopropanes

💡 Magnetic Attraction: How Pigeons Find Their Way Home

Jun 1, 2026

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7 min read

Cut-and-Sew: Molecular Tailoring

💡 What Came First: The Chicken or the Terrible Bird?

May 25, 2026

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7 min read

A Radical Alternative

💡 Movie Geologists: Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place

May 18, 2026

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7 min read

Acid + Amine ≠ Amide

💡 Celebrating David Attenborough at 100

May 11, 2026

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7 min read

Nitrogen, On Demand

💡 Coked-Up Salmon Are Wired to Wander

May 4, 2026

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7 min read

Powering up Pyridine

💡 One in Three Believe Myths About Vaccine, Fluoride or Raw Milk

Apr 27, 2026

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6 min read

Steve Bennett

Of Mousanes and Men

Shedding New Light on a Century-Old Reaction

Modern Alchemy: Next-Generation C→N Transmutation

Amide → Ketone

Dump, Stir, Diversify

The One-Carbon Shuffle

The Smallest Radical in the Universe

The O-to-C Edit

Pyridines 🤝 Phosphines

Two for One

Finally, Fluorine: The Appel Reaction’s Last Frontier

Safer Skeletal Editing

Life After DEAD: A Modern Mitsunobu

Double Duty for DCM

Downsizing

A “Metallo-Curtius” Rearrangement

A One-Stop Alkyl-Swap

Pick a Nitrogen, Any Nitrogen

Oxygen from Carbon Dioxide

[1+1+1]: Building Cyclopropanes

Cut-and-Sew: Molecular Tailoring

A Radical Alternative

Acid + Amine ≠ Amide

Nitrogen, On Demand

Powering up Pyridine

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