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Fluorescent objects created using glass made from melted amino acids

Chemistry

Glass made of amino acids can be 3D-printed and dissolves in the body

Dissolvable glass made from amino acids can be used to create 3D-printed components that aren’t harmful to organisms – they could one day be used to make medical devices that dissolve in the body after use

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A reconstruction of the Huc enzyme

Chemistry

Soil bacteria enzyme generates electricity from hydrogen in the air

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3d illustration. Set of a three small laboratory test tubes with different colored liquids on an isolated background. Science and laboratory equipment concept.

Chemistry

The surprisingly useful liquids that mop up gases like a sponge

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Quantum tunelling can allow particles to pass through barriers

Chemistry

Strange quantum event happens once every 10 billion chances

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Against a shimmery gray background, roughly a dozen illustrated translucent balls and sticks are arranged in the formation of the 3D molecular structure of perfluorobutanoic acid

Environment

US military to test destroying toxic PFAS with superheated water

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This image shows a small section of the Veil Nebula, as it was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This section of the outer shell of the famous supernova remnant is in a region known as NGC 6960 or ??? more colloquially ??? the Witch???s Broom Nebula. https://esahubble.org/images/heic1520a/

Space

We're hurtling into a new region of interstellar space. What now?

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Conical mounds of salt reflected in the shallow water on the Salar de Uyuni at sunset

Chemistry

We finally know in detail how salt dissolves in water

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Technology

Gel-based encryption can only be unlocked with key of light and heat

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Electron microscope image of the new aluminium alloy

Chemistry

Aluminium alloy could boost spacecraft radiation shielding 100-fold

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Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless

Chemistry

Nobel prize in chemistry awarded for reliable molecule-building tool

The 2022 Nobel prize for chemistry has been jointly awarded to Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless for their development of click chemistry – ways of joining molecules together

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Life

Experiments hint at how molecules essential to all life first arose

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Space

Enceladus shown to have all six of the essential elements for life

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Technology

Google AI can tell what things smell like by the molecular structure

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Technology

Quantum computers might not offer extreme speed boost for chemistry

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