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chemistry

explosion in desert

Physics

Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

Mastering materials that have never been made before could deliver blasts big enough to shoot rockets to Mars

Features

Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic

Technology

Plastics made fireproof thanks to mother-of-pearl mimic

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Animation showing ozone-harming chemicals moving from low to high latitudes

Earth

Ozone layer recovery will be delayed by chemical leaks

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Two footballers

Physics

Footballers move around pitch like chaotic particles in a fluid

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Diagram of a buckyball

Space

Buckyballs mysteriously show up in cold space and warp starlight

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Glasses of whisky

Technology

Artificial whisky taster has the palate of a connoisseur

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Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

Physics

Fortified gas marbles are 10 times stronger than regular bubbles

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Mars strata

Life

Mars rover sees signs of microbe-friendly layers in ancient lake

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cooking

Health

Your mind as well as your senses deserves a place at mealtimes

Leader

Rubisco

Life

Resurrected gene allows time travel to an Earth before oxygen

Researchers have rebuilt the gene coding for an ancient form of the photosynthesis enzyme rubisco, which should tell us how life coped with oxygen-poor air

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Life

Synthetic genes can make weird new proteins that actually work

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Life

We could detect alien life by finding complex molecules

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Life

New era of alchemy: Copying nature’s chemistry in a jiffy

Features

Physics

Three-atom molecule cooled to near absolute zero for first time

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