2024 Nobel Prize – This year's Nobel Prize announcements will take place between 7th - 14th October 2024
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Demis Hassabis, John M. Jumper and David Baker win the 2024 Nobel Prize for chemistry for their work on proteins
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The rise of DIY, pirated medicine: Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has made DIY medicine cheaper and more accessible to the masses
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A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee. Three methods strive to retain the bean's flavor while removing its caffeine.
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"Dark oxygen" production defies knowledge of the deep ocean, potentially upends standard model for discovering life on other planets
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Any experts on electrophoretic lacquer here? Need some help in sourcing a high quality lacquer.
Need to apply lacquer on a mild steel product that is zinc plated and has some vibratory surface polishing on top of it, which wears the zinc down a bit. Need to pass 500 hours on a British...
Need to apply lacquer on a mild steel product that is zinc plated and has some vibratory surface polishing on top of it, which wears the zinc down a bit.
Need to pass 500 hours on a British Standard salt spray test (BS EN ISO 9227: 2017)
If anyone has any sources on a good lacquer supplier please let me know. Tried one by LVH coatings but it didn't pass more than 300 hours.
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Why 3D printing buildings leads to problems
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Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis.
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The engineering of duct tape
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The history of the gas mask
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The hazy evolution of cannabis
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Water isn't normal
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Tastes like chicken? Think again—edible ants have distinctive flavor profiles.
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Turning styrofoam into cinnamon candy
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Synthesizing chicken noodle soup from pure chemicals
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Chemistry of Spice Melange (from Dune)
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Tallow to margarine
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New material allows for better hydrogen-based batteries and fuel cells
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For millennia, Tyrian purple was the most valuable colour on the planet. Then the recipe to make it was lost. By piecing together ancient clues, could one man bring it back?
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Making purple gold
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The strange clouds of alien worlds
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Machine learning creates a massive map of smelly molecules
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Making bulletproof wood
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Researchers develop new mechanism to create water-repellent surfaces
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Why the empty atom picture misunderstands quantum theory
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2023 Nobel Prize – This year's Nobel Prize announcements will take place between 2nd - 9th October 2023
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Fritz Haber, the man who killed millions and saved billions
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The chemistry of ‘Yes Minister’ (2017)
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The hunt for natural hydrogen reserves
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How one company owns color
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Turning milk into clothing
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The danger of popcorn polymer: Incident at the TPC Group chemical plant
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Measuring the amount of lead (Pb) consumed when drinking from lead crystal glassware. Is it safe?
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We made an epic fireworks display to explain the science of fireworks
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Superconductor chaos
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We made a meat-leaf to demonstration of the cutting edge of regenerative medicine, and bioengineering. And maybe as the first stop on the road to meat-robots.
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I lost the cubane race (still going though!) - Cubane Ep. 15
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Solving chemistry problems through AI
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In a geologic triumph, scientists drill a window into Earth’s mantle
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Multi-layer reactive foil: no fuel, no oxygen, tons of heat
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Turning paint thinner into cherry soda
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Making iron bacteria cement (water insoluble, no firing required)
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Excessive outbreaks of seaweed are clogging up our waters – now the algae is being harvested alongside farmed crops to create ingredients for cosmetics and food products
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‘Self-healing’ Roman concrete could aid modern construction, study suggests
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Making the stinkiest chemical known to man
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The Hibernator’s Guide to the Galaxy
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The world depends on this government warehouse's collection of strange Standard Reference Materials. They're not cheap.
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The man who tried to fake an element
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Lithium removal with household water purification devices
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These metals destroy themselves to prevent rust
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