Humans
Up and atom: The fights to put people into the periodic table
Element 118 has been named oganesson in honour of nuclear physicist Yuri Oganessian. Only 17 people have joined this exclusive club, and often not without a fight
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Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table
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Humans
Syria chemical attack looks like nerve gas – and was no accident
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Physics
Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements
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Earth
Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously
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Health
Was Kim Jong-nam killed by VX nerve gas? Doesn’t look like it
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Life
Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material
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Health
Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome
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Physics
World’s first time crystals cooked up using new recipe
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Earth
Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago
High levels of oceanic oxygen could have allowed advanced, animal-like life to develop for the first time – only to be wiped out again as oxygen vanished
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Life
Molecules tied into beautiful ‘octofoil’ knot for first time
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Life
Carbon cascade reveals fresh look to the element of life
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Earth
Carbon seen bonding with six other atoms for the first time
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Space
Giant ball of gas is a totally stinky galactic chemistry lab
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