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Topic: Chemistry

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Does alien life smell like the sea?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Child holding a small plant (Getty Images/lovelyday12)

How plant biology mirrors our own

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Damaged Books (Getty Images/crPrin)

Going gluten-free could fight bookworms

Rae Hodge
Drone footage shows the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 6, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released by the NTSB. (National Transportation Safety Board/WikiCommons)

The major public health disaster in Ohio

Troy Farah
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Sunset over crashing ocean currents (Gordon Scammell/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

'Water paradox' solved by microdroplets

Nicolás M. Morato - The Conversation
Portrait of Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization (Getty Images/mikroman6)

Louis Pasteur's work still saves lives

Rodney E. Rohde - The Conversation
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"Click chemistry" earns a Nobel

Mark Lorch - The Conversation
Big waves at the beach (Getty Images/PhotoNostalghia2020)

How did life emerge from nothing?

Troy Farah
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Fireworks in the shape of smiling faces are sent during the Opening Ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at PyeongChang Olympic Stadium on February 9, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

The science of ‘shape’ fireworks

Nicole Karlis
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An AI learns how to do chemistry

Marc Zimmer - The Conversation
Photomicrograph Of Martian Meteorite Alh84001 (Getty Images)

Mars meteorite mystery persists

Nicholas Booth, Elizabeth Howell
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What makes wine dry?

Aude Watrelot - The Conversation
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The politics of the periodic table

Kelling Donald - The Conversation
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The abstract of mathematics is important

Harry Zandberg Wiggins - The Conversation
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Why you should be afraid of Teflon

Keith A. Spencer
Graphene: The Superstrong, Superthin, and Superversatile Material That Will Revolutionize the World by Les Johnson and Joseph E. Meany (Getty/virusowy)

Graphene, the magic material

Les Johnson, Joseph E. Meany
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Is DNA the secret to safe antibiotics?

Kevin M. Folta - The Conversation
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How sunscreen's magic works

Kerry Hanson - The Conversation
In this photo taken Monday, May 2, 2016, an enormous statue of Mao Zedong looms over the No. 1 Tractor Factory in Luoyang in central China's Henan province. Fifty years after Mao unleashed the decade-long Cultural Revolution to reassert his authority and revive his radical communist agenda, the spirit of modern China's founder still exerts a powerful pull. Millions of people were persecuted, publicly humiliated, beaten or killed during the upheaval, as zealous factionalism metastasized countrywide, tearing apart Chinese society at a most basic level. () (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Jia-Chen Fu - The Conversation
"Unconditional Surrender," a sculpture by Seward Johnson inspired by Alfred Eisenstaedt's iconic photo of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day. (AP/Gregory Bull)

The science of swooning

Paula Young Lee
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Joanna Rothkopf
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Old champagne tastes cheesy

Joanna Rothkopf
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Beer's magical chemistry

Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/NASA)

Joanna Rothkopf
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