Turning paint thinner into cherry soda
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Multi-layer reactive foil: no fuel, no oxygen, tons of heat
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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 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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Reaching closer to Earth's core, one lava scoop at a time – 2021 eruption in Iceland gave researchers rare and illuminating access to the mantle
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Distillation and sealing of 139g of pure cesium into a glass vial
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Going nuclear to desalinate seawater
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From high-protein food to plastics and fuel, Swedish scientists are attempting to tap seaweed's huge potential
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Making what is said to be one of the worst smelling substances ever invented, US Government Standard Bathroom Malodor
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Energy, and how to get it - All of us know people who have more energy than we do, but the science of the phenomenon is just coming into view
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Turning buildings into batteries? Concrete battery storage explained
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How to grow sodium chloride crystals at home
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Fractal ink jets that power spiral motion
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The poisons – real and fictional – used in Bond films
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Turning cotton balls into cotton candy
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Solar domes could desalinate seawater at a commercial scale
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Forensic science can be a powerful crime-fighting tool, but misdeeds, dubious methodologies, and bogus claims threaten its reputation—and the reputation of science as a whole
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AlphaFold DB provides open access to protein structure predictions for the human proteome and twenty other key organisms to accelerate scientific research
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New electronic paper displays brilliant colors
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How does film actually work? (It's magic) [Photos and Development]
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Making transparent wood
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We broke phosphorus: Humanity is flushing away one of life's essential elements
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Powerpaste ‘goo’ stores ten times the energy density of lithium-ion batteries
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Discoveries at the edge of the Periodic Table: First ever measurements of Einsteinium
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Reusable handwarmers that get hot by freezing
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First-ever atomic resolution video of salt crystals forming in real time
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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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