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Quantum tunelling can allow particles to pass through barriers

Chemistry

Strange quantum event happens once every 10 billion chances

When two forms of hydrogen smash together an unusual process called quantum tunnelling can occur. Researchers have now worked out how rarely it happens

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Against a shimmery gray background, roughly a dozen illustrated translucent balls and sticks are arranged in the formation of the 3D molecular structure of perfluorobutanoic acid

Environment

US military to test destroying toxic PFAS with superheated water

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This image shows a small section of the Veil Nebula, as it was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This section of the outer shell of the famous supernova remnant is in a region known as NGC 6960 or ??? more colloquially ??? the Witch???s Broom Nebula. https://esahubble.org/images/heic1520a/

Space

We're hurtling into a new region of interstellar space. What now?

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Conical mounds of salt reflected in the shallow water on the Salar de Uyuni at sunset

Chemistry

We finally know in detail how salt dissolves in water

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Technology

Gel-based encryption can only be unlocked with key of light and heat

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Electron microscope image of the new aluminium alloy

Chemistry

Aluminium alloy could boost spacecraft radiation shielding 100-fold

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Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless

Chemistry

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for reliable molecule-building tool

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Dark blue ocean surface seen from underwater. Waves underwater and rays of sunlight shining through

Life

Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose

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Saturn's moon Enceladus

Space

Enceladus shown to have all six of the essential elements for life

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A man smelling a plant

Technology

Google AI can tell what things smell like by the molecular structure

An artificial intelligence model that maps the structure of molecules to their smell could help create specific food tastes or find compounds to better repel disease-carrying organisms like mosquitoes

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Technology

Quantum computers might not offer extreme speed boost for chemistry

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Humans

Secrets of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze finally deciphered

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Chemistry

Forensic fingerprinting technique could help spot document fraud

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Space

Mysterious light may come from the largest molecules found in space

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