One town, four elements – Ytterby in Sweden is famous for being the single richest source of elemental discoveries in the world
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Extracting explosive, radioactive metal (potassium) from bananas
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What did the past smell like?
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Turning plastic gloves into grape soda
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Making toilet paper moonshine
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Why PVC cement spins like crazy in water
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Batteries, fuel cells powered by spinach
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Does cyanide actually smell like almonds?
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Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to discovery of ‘genetic scissors’ called CRISPR/Cas9 by Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna
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Google performed the first quantum simulation of a chemical reaction
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Low doses of LSD have been found to increase pain tolerance comparable to oxycodone or morphine
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Hangover cure successfully tested on drunk subjects in Finland – dose of 1,200 milligrams of amino acid L-cysteine was found to reduce alcohol-related nausea and headache
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Why line-dried laundry smells so good
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Johnson & Johnson to stop selling baby powder in US and Canada after tens of thousands of lawsuits from consumers claiming its talc products, including Johnson’s Baby Powder, caused their cancer
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A new type of chemical bond: The charge-shift bond
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Chemistry is dangerous
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Making aerogel
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Scientists isolate bacterial enzyme that rapidly breaks down plastic polymers into recyclable components
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Remdesivir, one of the experimental coronavirus drugs, is a royal pain to make
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Chloroquine, past and present
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Electron microscope animation: Carbon nanotubes pulled into thread
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Making radioactive uranium glass
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Going supercritical
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Will any crap we put into graphene increase its electrocatalytic effect?
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Making carbonated water by burning diamonds
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A new slippery coating could help reduce water usage
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Researchers have created glass which can bend and compress
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for their work on lithium-ion batteries
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Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
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Venoms vs. poisons
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The elements
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A molecular near miss
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Spectacular mitosis in mesenchymal stem cells
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Tiny bombs in your blood - The complement system
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Making ferrofluid from scratch
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Pig-Pen Effect: How our "personal pollution clouds" affect indoor air quality
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Manganese heptoxide, the chemical that really doesn't want to exist
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Who really invented the periodic table?
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Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively
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How to measure how much pee is in your pool
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Metal has no odor, so what are we smelling? | Making 1-octen-3-one
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Why are 96,000,000 black balls on this reservoir?
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Battery reality: There’s nothing better than lithium-ion coming soon
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Making activated carbon
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Inorganic chemistry: What exact color does ozone gas have?
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Computational chemists welcome ‘living’ journal
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Small molecule structures: A new world
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Was Roman concrete better?
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Experimenting with liquid rockets
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Use of evolution to design molecules nets Nobel Prize in Chemistry for three scientists
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