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Texas disaster: What links fertilisers and explosions?

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Texas disaster: What links fertilisers and explosions?

One of the most common elements on Earth is used to make both fertilisers and explosives. We explain why nitrogen is the key ingredient

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Cell receptor work wins chemistry Nobel

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Cell receptor work wins chemistry Nobel

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Competing claims pile up around new element 113

Physics

Competing claims pile up around new element 113

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Chemical internet discovers new ways to make drugs

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Chemical internet discovers new ways to make drugs

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Triple-bonded boron opens new chemical world

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Triple-bonded boron opens new chemical world

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Feedback: Chemistry without the chemicals

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How Saturn's moon Titan could spark chemistry of life

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How Saturn's moon Titan could spark chemistry of life

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Element factory tests properties of ephemeral atoms

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New leaf: The promise of artificial photosynthesis

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New leaf: The promise of artificial photosynthesis

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Impossible chemistry: Having entropy both ways

Impossible chemistry: Having entropy both ways

A reaction that went spontaneously in both directions seemed to break one of science's most cherished laws – only a crank would say they'd made it happen

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Impossible chemistry: Atomic ménage à trois

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Impossible chemistry: Forcing noble gases to work

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Impossible chemistry: Quantum escape tunnel

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Physics

Impossible chemistry: Crystal paradox

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