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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
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
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
(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, file)

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
(YouTube)

Joanna Rothkopf
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-137002p1.html'>Africa Studio</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Old champagne tastes cheesy

Joanna Rothkopf
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Beer's magical chemistry

Joanna Rothkopf
(AP/NASA)

Joanna Rothkopf
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