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Lee Cronin: Can we make computers with chemicals?

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Lee Cronin: Can we make computers with chemicals?

Silicon chips are so last decade, says chemist Lee Cronin – soon we’ll be computing mega-fast with tiny molecules

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A pile of clothes

Technology

Your old, unwanted clothes can be turned into building materials

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assembly line artwork

Technology

AI alchemists spit out the recipe for any molecule you want to make

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Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded for harnessing evolution to help humans

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Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded for harnessing evolution to help humans

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A hydrogen atom forming a 'ghost bond'

Physics

Hydrogen can form 'ghost bonds' with something that isn't even there

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Lee Cronin

Chemistry

Why creating a chemical brain will be how we understand consciousness

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Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning

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Doomed crew seeking Northwest Passage didn’t die from lead poisoning

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Ancient palace in Samarra

Humans

The ancient palaces of Iraq glittered with a special type of glass

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Technology

Nanobots can eat nerve agents and then spit out an antidote

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Lifting an underwater robot out of the water

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The underwater drones that hunt for oil spills beneath the waves

Oil behaves strangely in water – now a combination of AI and super-expensive underwater vehicles are being used to track it. Joshua Howgego went along for the ride

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Physics

Watch a ‘heart’ made from liquid gallium beat in an electric field

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Physics

Strange spaghetti crystals shrink when hot and wet

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Health

Novichok poisoning: How could it happen again in Salisbury?

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Life

Don't miss: immortality in New York, sulphur and science comedy

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