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chemistry

Against a shimmery gray background, roughly a dozen illustrated translucent balls and sticks are arranged in the formation of the 3D molecular structure of perfluorobutanoic acid

Environment

US military to test destroying toxic PFAS with superheated water

A system that breaks down so-called forever chemicals with extreme heat and pressure will be tested at two US Air Force bases and a Navy base

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This image shows a small section of the Veil Nebula, as it was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This section of the outer shell of the famous supernova remnant is in a region known as NGC 6960 or ??? more colloquially ??? the Witch???s Broom Nebula. https://esahubble.org/images/heic1520a/

Space

We're hurtling into a new region of interstellar space. What now?

Features

Conical mounds of salt reflected in the shallow water on the Salar de Uyuni at sunset

Chemistry

We finally know in detail how salt dissolves in water

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Technology

Gel-based encryption can only be unlocked with key of light and heat

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Electron microscope image of the new aluminium alloy

Chemistry

Aluminium alloy could boost spacecraft radiation shielding 100-fold

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Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless

Chemistry

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for reliable molecule-building tool

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Dark blue ocean surface seen from underwater. Waves underwater and rays of sunlight shining through

Life

Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose

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Saturn's moon Enceladus

Space

Enceladus shown to have all six of the essential elements for life

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A man smelling a plant

Technology

Google AI can tell what things smell like by the molecular structure

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Quantum computer

Technology

Quantum computers might not offer extreme speed boost for chemistry

One of the long-promised benefits of quantum computers is simulating molecules very quickly, but it turns out that these extra-fast speeds might not be possible

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Humans

Secrets of an ancient Chinese recipe for bronze finally deciphered

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Chemistry

Forensic fingerprinting technique could help spot document fraud

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Space

Mysterious light may come from the largest molecules found in space

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Technology

Ink filled with secret molecules can hide encryption key in a letter

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