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The north pole is moving and if it flips, life on Earth is in trouble

Earth

The north pole is moving and if it flips, life on Earth is in trouble

The magnetic north pole is racing towards Siberia - but why? It's a mystery with huge implications, and to solve it, we're building an explosive model of the planet's core

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What is the body made of?

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What is the body made of?

Marie Paulze Lavoisier with her husband Antoine

People in Science

Marie Paulze Lavoisier

Shelves full of Walkers crisps

Chemistry

Crisp packets made of a new material could be much easier to recycle

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Antoine Lavoisier

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Antoine Lavoisier

Lise Meitner

People in Science

Lise Meitner

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Life

What makes a good smell? Inside a multibillion dollar aromatic mystery

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It would take huge amounts of clean energy to make the chemicals industry go green

Environment

Greening the chemical industry requires massive amount of renewables

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Hell's Gate in New Zealand is being used as an open-air laboratory

Life

¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵs dunked test tubes in hot springs to recreate life’s origins

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Chemistry

Clever chemistry could make fertiliser with a smaller carbon footprint

There could finally be a way to make vital agricultural fertiliser without releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases – but will it work on an industrial scale?

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Space

We’ve found the first type of molecule to form after the big bang

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Chemistry

A gel made from urea has molecules that resemble friendship bracelets

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Physics

The story of the most beautiful table in science is worth celebrating

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Physics

Here's my favourite element – what's yours?

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