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chemistry
Nobel Chemistry Prize Awarded for ‘Quantum Dots’ That Bring Colored Light to Screens
STOCKHOLM—Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus, and Aleksey Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of tiny clusters of atoms known as quantum dots, widely used today ...
October 4, 2023
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Nobel Prize Awarded to Chemists Who Discovered Reactions That Snap Molecules Together Like Lego
STOCKHOLM—Scientists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and Barry Sharpless won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for ...
October 5, 2022
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Earthing: Our Vital Connection to the Earth
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May 2, 2022
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Battery Pioneers Who Made Mobile Revolution Possible Win Nobel Chemistry Prize
Battery Pioneers Who Made Mobile Revolution Possible Win Nobel Chemistry Prize
October 9, 2019
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Chemistry Teacher Sets Student on Fire, Leaving 15-Year-Old ‘Permanently Disfigured’
A Georgia student suffered serious burns after a chemistry teacher set him on fire this month. Malachi McFadden ...
August 13, 2019
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Zachary Stieber
Film Review: ‘Long Shot’: Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen Have Serious Rom-Com Chemistry
R | 2h 5min | Comedy, Romance | 3 May 2019 (USA) A Jewish, gonzo journalist gets a ...
April 28, 2019
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Mark Jackson
Trio Wins Chemistry Nobel 2018 for Work on Antibody Drugs
STOCKHOLM, London—Two Americans and a Briton won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Oct. 3 for harnessing ...
October 4, 2018
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Reuters
Microscope Trailblazers Win Chemistry Nobel for ‘Freeze Framing’ Life
STOCKHOLM/LONDON—A trio of Swiss, American and British scientists won the 2017 Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for developing ...
October 4, 2017
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Reuters
Indian Schoolgirl Perfectly Reproduces Periodic Table by Inserting 90 Global Issues
Rather than a chemical, each symbol abbreviates a relevant social problem affecting the world today.
June 8, 2016
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Jim Liao
The Philosophy of Chemistry—and What It Can Tell Us About Life, the Universe, and Everything
Philosophy asks some fundamental and probing questions of itself. What is it? Why do we do it? What ...
May 18, 2016
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Vanessa Seifert
From Chrome Plating to Nanotubes: The ‘Modern’ Chemistry First Used in Ancient Times
The ancient Babylonians were the first to use sophisticated geometry – a staggering 1,400 years before it was ...
February 4, 2016
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Mark Lorch
Have Scientists Really Found Something Harder Than Diamond?
Ask most people what the hardest material on Earth is and they will probably answer "diamond."
January 20, 2016
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Paul Coxon
The Search for New Elements on the Periodic Table Started With a Blast
So the periodic table has expanded again with the addition late last year of four new superheavy elements, ...
January 9, 2016
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James Tickner
Change Your Textbooks: Seventh Row of Periodic Table Officially Complete
Elements 113, 115, 117, 118 have been discovered by scientists in Japan, Russia, and America, completing row 7 ...
January 4, 2016
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Jim Liao
Japanese Research Institute Earns Right to Name Element 113
A team of Japanese scientists have met the criteria for naming a new element, the synthetic highly radioactive ...
December 31, 2015
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The Associated Press
Explainer: How Dangerous Is the Sodium Cyanide Found at Tianjin Explosion Site?
Officials investigating a huge explosion at a warehouse in Tianjin in China have discovered a store of 700 ...
August 20, 2015
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Benjamin Burke
How Science Lost One of Its Greatest Minds in the Trenches of Gallipoli
In Aug. 10, 1915, in a trench on a peninsula in Turkey, 27-year-old Henry Moseley died. The loss ...
August 10, 2015
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Mark Lorch
Five Chemistry Inventions That Enabled the Modern World
Did you know that the discovery of a way to make ammonia was the single most important reason ...
June 8, 2015
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Mark Lorch
What’s That Smell? A Controversial Theory of Olfaction Deemed Implausible
But how this amazing sense works to discriminate odors is controversial.
June 7, 2015
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Eric Block
Chemistry Set Pencils Can Turn Lifesaving Tests Into Child’s Play
If you’ve ever sat opposite a doctor and wondered what she was scribbling on her notepad, the answer ...
April 17, 2015
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Mark Lorch
Is Glass a Solid or a Liquid?
Before Pilkingtons invented plate glass in the mid-19th century, flat panes could not be made. Old windows are ...
February 2, 2015
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Paddy Royall
Prominent Chemist Says Scientists Don’t Really Understand Evolution
Dr. James Tour understands microevolution, he has observed it often in the lab. But macroevolution—the evolution that, according ...
October 2, 2014
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Tara MacIsaac
Mystical Science of Alchemy Arose Independently in Ancient Egypt, China, India
Different ancient cultures apparently developed alchemy in similar ways, but each seemed to come up with it on ...
September 16, 2014
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Tara MacIsaac
Why the Watched Pot May Actually Never Boil, According to Quantum Physics
Researchers have found that the act of measuring some particles can either stop or speed up the particles' ...
June 29, 2014
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Tara MacIsaac
Archaeologists Recreate Elixir of Long Life Recipe From Unearthed Bottle
Beneath a construction site for a glassy, 22-story hotel in New York, archaeologists unearthed a history of drinking, ...
June 20, 2014
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April Holloway
What Causes Garlic Breath? (and How to Beat It)
We are talking garlic. It's good for your taste buds and good for your body. But you have ...
June 13, 2014
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10 Quotes Everyone Interested in Science or Philosophy Should Read, Ponder
From Albert Einstein to Carl Sagan to Niels Bohr, many great physicists also had a way with words. ...
June 10, 2014
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Tara MacIsaac
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