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Two quiet science papers, one recurring problem: what we still cannot clean up

A Chinese team reports a smart coating that strips tritium from wastewater; separately, researchers describe a dedicated nerve circuit for mechanical itch. Two small papers, one stubborn truth about scale-up.

A digital illustration depicts a pale hand with ornate, jeweled red-gold nail extensions positioned on the stage of a black compound microscope against a blue background.
A digital illustration depicts a pale hand with ornate, jeweled red-gold nail extensions positioned on the stage of a black compound microscope against a blue background. @NEW SCIENTIST · Telegram

Desk note: where a Western wire might have run the tritium paper as a straightforward materials-science brief and the itch paper as a neurology curiosity, this publication treats both as instances of the same lab-to-market gap, and gives the Chinese industrial-policy context equal analytical weight to the bench result.

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