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chemistry

Pierre and Marie Curie

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

Features

Oganessian

Mr Element 118: The only living person on the periodic table

Features

People in white suits receive medical treatment

Humans

Syria chemical attack looks like nerve gas – and was no accident

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Southern Milky Way

Space

Oddball star could be home to long-sought superheavy elements

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Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

Earth

Metabolism may be older than life itself and start spontaneously

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Kim Jong-nam

Health

Was Kim Jong-nam killed by VX nerve gas? Doesn’t look like it

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Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

Life

Dwarf planet Ceres hosts home-grown organic material

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A man looking exhausted

Life

Metabolic switch may bring on chronic fatigue syndrome

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A crystal

Physics

World’s first time crystals cooked up using new recipe

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oxygen bubbles

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

Regulars

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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