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Can a strange state of matter explain what life is – and how it began?

Life

Can a strange state of matter explain what life is – and how it began?

Laboratory experiments have coaxed simple molecules into states that naturally become more complex, hinting at the origins of evolution itself

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Chemistry

Water can turn into a superacid that makes diamonds

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Chemistry

Nuclear fusion fuel could be made greener with new chemical process

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Chemistry

Metals can be squeezed into sheets just a few atoms thick

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Earth

Clever chemistry can make rocks absorb CO2 much more quickly

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Chemistry

Carbon-neutral hydrogen can be produced from farm waste

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Health

Wastewater treatment plants funnel PFAS into drinking water

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Can you and your family solve these mind-bending scientific riddles?

Mind

Can you and your family solve these mind-bending scientific riddles?

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Common chemical in drinking water hasn't been tested for safety

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Common chemical in drinking water hasn't been tested for safety

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Technology

Slick trick separates oil and water with 99.9 per cent purity

Oil and water can be separated efficiently by pumping the mixture through thin channels between two semipermeable membranes

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Physics

Rich biography of Marie Curie shows how she helped women into science

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Chemistry

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for mastering structures of proteins

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Chemistry

Chemists discovered the first new chemical bond in more than a decade

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Environment

Special electrodes can split seawater to produce hydrogen fuel

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